CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Issue Background

English is the international language. With master English well, then we will be able to
communicate with other nations in the world. In addition, we will be able to add insight and
our knowledge for the betterment of our nation and state, because we will be able to read
literature in English, listen to radio broadcasts abroad, as well as watching movies, broaden
knowledge other. Thus, in the end we can master knowledge in all areas .Tenses is essential in
the education of English .And also a rule in the English language. If someone wants to master
English well, then he should be able to master the tenses well. Among the forms of other
tenses, in this paper, I explain the simple present tense.
1.2 Writing Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand and apply the tenses in colloquial or formal
activities that use English as the main language
1.3 Problem Formulation
1. What is mean simple present tenses ?
2. How to function of the simple present tenses ?
3. What a structure of the simple present tenses ?
4. What the example of the simple present tenses ?
5. How the example the reading text related to simple present tenses ?

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CHAPTER 2 DISCUSSION

2.1 Meaning of The Tenses

Simple Present Tense is a sentence that declares an act or activities that take place /
occur at the current time in the form of a simple or a job done repeatedly, daily habits, events
or acts that have nothing to do with time, and to express general truths.
The simple present tense is used to describe habits or routines, to
make general statements or fact, or to express opinions.1

2.2 Function of The Tenses

1. To describe repeated actions or habits.
I get up at seven every morning.
2. To talk about thinks that are always or generaly true.
The sunsets in the west
It snows a lot in the winter here
3. To describe a permanent situation or a condition with no definite
start or finish but that is true now.
They live in mexico city
4. With adverbs of frequency such as always, usually often
sometimes, seldom/rarely and never to say how often we do
something if the verb is be, we put the adverb after the verb. If
the verb is not be, we put the adverb before the verb.
They are seldom late. She often studies in the library.
5. With time expressions such as everyday/week/year, in the
morning/ afternoon/ evening, and at night. We can put these time
expressions at the beginning or the end of a sentence.
I go to the store once a week. On we cans, we have dinner
at seven.

1 Patricia K. Werner, Mosaic 2 Grammer. Page 9

2 The McGRAW, Grammer Form and Function 3, (Hill Companies). Page 4
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2.3 Structure of Tenses

( + ) S + V1 (s/es) + (O)
( ) S + do/does + not + V1 + (O)
( ? ) do/does + S + V1 + (O)
Note:
- S / es was added to the verbs with the subject she, he, and it.
- S for verbs that end with consonants.
- es for verbs that ends in a vowel, -ch, -sh, -X, -SS, and -y.
- Do use the subject they, we, I, and you.
- Does she used the subject she, he and it.

2.4 Example of The Tenses

1. (+) We study english twice a week
(-) We do not study english twice a week
(?)Do we study english twice a week?
2. (+) They go abroad every year
(-)They do not go abroad every year
(?)Do they go abroad every year?
3. (+) The sun shines during the day
(-)The sun does not shine during the day
(?)Does the sun shine during the day?
4. (+) The earth moves round the sun
(-)The earth does not move round the sun
(?)does the earth move round the sun?3

3 M.J. Lado, Practical Complete English Grammar. Page. 10

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2.5 Example The Text Reading

TRUE LOVE
My name is Joe. That is why my colleague, Milton Davidson, calls
me. He is a programmer and I am, a computer. I am part of the Multivac
Complex and am connected with other parts all over the world. I know
everything. Almost everything.
I am Miltons private computer. His Joe, he understands more
about computers then anyone in the world, and I am his experimental
model. He has made me speak better than my other computer can.
Its just a matter of matching sounds to symbols, Joe, he told me.
thats the way it works in the human brain even though we still dont
know what symbols there are in the brain. I know the symbols is yours,
and I can match them to works one to one, so I talk I dont think I talk as
well as I think, but Milton says I talk very well. Milton has never married,
though he is nearly 40 years old. He has never found the right women, he
told me. One day he said, Ill find her yet, Joe, I am going to find the
best. I am going to have true love and youre going to help me. I am tired
of improving you in order to solve the problems of the world. Solve my
problem, find me true love.
I said, what is true love?
never mind, that is abstract. Just find me the ideal girl. You are
connected to the multivac-complex so you can reach the data banks of
every human being in the world. Well eliminate them all by groups and
classes until were left with only one person. The perfect person she will
be for me.
I said, I am ready.
He said, Eliminate all men first.
It was easy. His works activated symbols in moleculare valves. I
could reach out to make contact with the accumulated data on every
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human being in the world. At his works, I with-drew from 3,784,952,874

men. I kept contact with 3,786,112,090 women.
He said, eliminate all younger than 25, all order than 25, all order
than 40. Than eliminate all with an IQ under 120; all with a height under
150 centimeters and over 175 centimeters.
He gave me exact measuremen; he eliminated women with living
children; he eliminated women with various genetict characteristics. I am
not sure about eye color. He said. Let that so far a while. But no red hair. I
dont like red hair.

(Adapted from Road to Reading: Washington DC,1987,PP. 163164)4

4 For University Student, Improving Reading Skill in English, (Team of Five). Page.
23-24
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3.1 Conclusion
So, structure covers all rules that govern the formation of sentence
which includes the order of arranging words into sentences, the choice of
appropriate words, and the use of certain function words.
At speaking English must be conducted in accordance with the rules
of the examples like simple present tense, to what we want to say can be
well received.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
K. Werner, Patricia. Mosaic 2 Grammer.
McGRAW, The. Grammer Form and Function 3, (Hill Companies).
Lado, M.J. Practical Complete English Grammar
Student, For University. Improving Reading Skill in English, (Team of Five).

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