Presente simple

El presente simple en inglés se usa para:
- Para expresar hábitos y rutinas, hechos generales, acciones repetidas o situaciones, emociones y deseos permanentes:
I smoke (hábito);
I work in London (permanencia);
London is a large city (hecho general) - Para dar instrucciones o indicaciones:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left. - Para hablar de eventos programados, presentes o futuros:
Your exam starts at 09.00. - Para referirse al futuro, detrás de algunas conjunciones:
after, when, before, as soon as, until:
He’ll give it to you when you come next Saturday.
Formación del presente simple
(usando como ejemplo el verbo «To think»)
| Forma Afirmativa | Forma Negativa | Forma interrogativa |
| I think | Do I think? | I do not think/I don’t think |
| You think | Do you think? | You do not think /You don’t think |
| He thinks | Does he think? | He does not think/He doesn’t think |
| She thinks | Does she think? | She does not think/She doesn’t think |
| It thinks | Does it think? | It does not think/It doesn’t think |
| We think | Do we think? | We do not think /We don’t think |
| They think | Do they think? | They do not think /They don’t think |
Información tomada de: https://www.ef.com.co/recursos-aprender-ingles/gramatica-inglesa/simple-present/
Presente simple en terceras personas:
- Al momento de hacer oraciones con la tercera persona del singular (She, he o it), se debe tener en cuenta algunas reglas de conjugación
- Para las formas negativa e interrogativa, se emplea DOES (= tercera persona del auxiliar ‘DO’) + el infinitivo del verbo. Uso del do/does