MPU 3022 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Simple Present Tense

Simple Past Tense
Simple Future Tense

By: Hii Yin Weng

Lim Siew Yit
Kek Bing Xian
To form the Simple Present we add -s to
the infinitive of the verb in the 3rd person
singular (he, she, it)

E.g. I live He/She/It lives

I sing He/She/It sings
SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
I
He
You
She does do
We
It
They
 SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
To make a positive Simple Present statement, simply
follow this pattern:

Subject + Main Verb

Simple present tense is used for the
following reasons:
1. Things that are true in general.

• Cheetah is the fastest land animal.

• Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of
vitamins.
• Mr. Jackson lives alone.
2. For habits or for things that happen sometimes or
all the time.
The following adverbs are commonly used
for simple present tense:
Never, sometimes, usually, frequently, often, always...

• I sometimes skip breakfast.

• She goes to school late.
• Mr. and Mrs. Jones always visit their grandchildren.
 Negative sentence:
(subject + doesn’t/don’t + main verb in base form)
• Peter bakes delicious  Peter doesn’t bake
cookies. delicious cookies.

• My classmates like our  My classmates don’t

History teacher. like our History
teacher.
 Questions:
(do/does + subject + main verb in base form)
• You like ice cream.  Do you like ice
cream?
• She lives in New York.  Does she live in
New York?
• They study in the same  Do they study in
school. the same school?
 Positive Negative Questions
Her perfume smells good. Her perfume doesn’t Does her perfume smell
smell good. good?
Honey comes from bees. Honey doesn’t come Does honey come from
from bees. bees?
Tim and his friends play Tim and his friends Do Tim and his friends
chess all the time. don’t play chess all play chess all the time?
the time.
Dad and Uncle Jim watch Dad and Uncle Jim Do Dad and Uncle Jim
football every night. don’t watch football watch football every
every night. night?
Simple Past Tense
The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk
about things that happened or existed before now.
Imagine someone asks what your brother Wolfgang
did while he was in town last weekend.

Example:
Wolfgang entered a hula hoop contest.
He won the silver medal.
Change the sentences to PAST TIME. Use a
simple past verb.

PRESENT PAST
Every day Yesterday
Every morning Yesterday morning
Every afternoon Yesterday afternoon
Every night Last night
Every year Last year
EXAMPLES.
1. I walk to my office every morning
→ I walked to my office yesterday.

2. I talk to my parents on the phone every week.

→ I talked to my parents on the phone yesterday.

3. The post office opens at eight o’clock every morning.

→ The post office opened at eight o’clock every morning.
How to Formulate the Simple Past?
For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -
d if the root form already ends in an e)

Play Played
Type Typed
Listen Listened
For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of
some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form:
Put Put
Cut Cut
Cost Cost

For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms
are more erratic:
See Saw
Do Did
Build Built
The good news is that verbs in the simple past tense (except for the verb
to be) don’t need to agree in number with their subjects.
• We use future simple to describe an action in the future

Will/Shall
Going
+infinitive
verb
Affirmative Negative Question
I will read I will not read Will I read?

You will read You will not read Will you read?

He/she/it will read He/She/it will not read Will he/she/it read/

We will read We will not read Will we read?

They will read They will not read Will they read?
 • I will read: I’ll read
• You will read: You’ll read

There is no contracted form for shall

I shall read :I shall read

Negative
• I will not read: I won’t read
• You will not read:You won’t read
 Sarah:"The telephone is ringing. "
David:"I’ll answer it!"

"No,I will not help you with

your homework! "
 "Stop doing that or
I will call the police. "

"Will you buy me a drink please? "

I think a new bag will cost RM50.

 “GOING TO”
• The builder called with the cost of a new window .
It is going to cost RM300.

• Shall I close the door?

 X  When I will arrive at the cinema ,I "call you.

Future Simple
√  When I arrive at the cinema ,I "call you.

Present Simple

When,while,berfore,after, by the time ,as soon as,unless,etc

RULE:
If we use time expression at the beginning of a clause ,
then we do NOT use the future simple .
We must only use the present simple.
THANK YOU