The present tense is the base form of the verb: I work inThailand.
But the third person (she/he/it) adds an -s: She works in Thailand.
How to use present
We use the present tense to talk about:
- something that is true in the present:
I’m twenty years old.
She lives in Cambodia.
I’m a doctor.
- something that happens again and again in the present:
He plays game every weekend.
We use words like sometimes, often. always, and never (adverbs of frequency) with the present tense:
She sometimes goes to the cinema.
He never plays football.
- something that is always true:
The adult human body contains 206 bones.
Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second.
- something that is fixed in the future.
The school term starts next year.
The train leaves at 1945 this morning.
He flies to Paris next week.
Questions and negatives
Look at these questions:
Do you play the piano?
Where do you live?
Does Jack play game?
Where does she come from?
Do Dara and Sokha live in Manchester?
Where does he work?
- With the present tense, we use do and does to make questions. We use does for the third person (she/he/it) and we use do for the others.
We use do and does with question words like where, what and why:
But look at these questions with who:
Who lives in Cambodia?
Who plays piano ll at the weekend?
Who works at Liverpool City Hospital?
Look at these sentences:
I like tennis, but I don’t like football. (don’t = do not)
I don’t live in Phom Penh now.
I don’t play the guitar, but I play the piano.
She doesn’t work at the weekend.
John doesn’t live in Manchester. (doesn’t = does not)
Brora doesn’t drive to work. He goes by bus.
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