Present Simple Tense: 12 Basic English Tenses

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Present simple tense adalah tense paling dasar. Ia menggunakan bentuk dasar kata kerja (Untuk mempermudah, saya mengistilahkan dengan kata kerja bentuk pertama/verb 1). 


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Penggunaan Present Simple Tense


Kita menggunakan tense ini untuk:


1. mengatakan bahwa sesuatu terjadi sepanjang waktu atau berulang kali (repeated actions or habits).


Contoh:

Mariana gets up at 5 o'clock every morning.

I don't visit Bandung very often.

We play football every Saturday.


2. mengatakan bahwa sesuatu itu benar secara umum (permanently true).


Contoh:

I come from Doha.

We live in Saudi.

The earth goes round the sun.


Struktur Kalimat Present Simple Tense


1. Positive Form


a. I/You/They/We + verb1


Contoh: I work.


b. He/She/It + verb1 (add "s" to the verb1)


Contoh: She works.


2. Negative form


a. I/You/They/We + do not/don't + verb1


Contoh: I don't work.


b. He/She/It + does not/doesn't + verb1 (do not add "s" to the verb1)


Contoh: He doesn't work.



3. Question form


a. Do + I/You/They/We + verb1?


Contoh: Do you work?


b. Does + He/She/It + verb1 (do not add "s" to the verb1)?


Adverb yang digunakan


1. Adverb of frequency


Contoh adverb: often, sometimes, always, usually, never, occasionally.


Contoh kalimat: He often goes there.


2. Repeated times


Contoh: every morning, at 9.30, in the morning, on Wednesday, 


Contoh kalimat: Palupi eats a lot of ice cream in the summer.


Contoh expressions of time lainnya: once a day, twice a week, three times a year, rarely, hardly ever, seldom, in the autumn, in the winter, in the spring.

Contoh kalimat: We go to Saudi three times a year.


Catatan Tambahan tentang verb1 yang ditambah huruf "s" di akhirnya


1. Verbs yang huruf akhirnya sh, ch, ss, o, atau x ditambah "-es".

Contoh: 


I teach English.

She teaches English.


Contoh lainnya: go => goes, fix => fixes, watch => watches, wash => washes, miss => misses.


2. Verbs yang berakhiran konsonan + y, ubah huruf y menjadi i, kemudian tambahkan "-es".


Contoh:


I study English.

He studies English.


Contoh lainnya: carry => carries



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