PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE – Part 1 – Where to Use Simple Present – Basic English Grammar HD

In this lesson, you will learn the four main uses of the present simple tense and how to use it correctly. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfDp-2XEiA&index=2&list=PLmwr9polMHwsRNZW607CtVZhg_SzsbiJw ➜ ALL TENSES Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsRNZW607CtVZhg_SzsbiJw ➜ PARTS OF SPEECH Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ ALL GRAMMAR LESSONS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ➜ VERBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LciKb0uuFEc&index=2&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ NOUNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBYpxaDOPo&index=3&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ PRONOUNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrAJB4VohA&index=4&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ ADJECTIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmeV6RYcf0&index=5&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ ADVERBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKL26Gji4UY&index=6&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 Transcript: Do you know where to use the present simple tense and how to use it correctly? In this lesson, I’m going to teach you the four main uses of this tense, and how to avoid common mistakes that many people make with it. So let’s start. Welcome to my series of lessons on the tenses. Before we start, as always, if you have any questions at all, just ask me in the comments section below, and I will talk to you there. OK, in this lesson, I will teach you the four main uses of the present simple tense – that is, to talk about habits and routines, permanent situations, facts about the world, and finally, the very important – talking about states with state verbs. And there’s a quiz at the end to check your understanding. Alright well first – what is the present simple tense? Well, quite simply, it’s the most basic tense in English and it’s the first tense that you will learn in any English course that you take. It’s very easy: you just take a subject and you add a verb. A subject is a word like I – You – We – They – He – She – It – or a name like Mike or Emma. Let’s take ‘I’ for now. And let’s add a verb – say ‘drink.’ Let’s complete this sentence so it sounds meaningful – “I drink tea every morning.” And there you have the present simple tense. Now, what does that sentence mean? Well, when I say “I drink tea every morning” you know that I do the action regularly. Now you see a timeline on the screen. Let’s say this side is the past, over on that side is the future, and in the middle is right now. So you know that I drink tea on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and so on. You can see that it repeats. So this is a habit. And this sentence shows us the first use of the present simple tense – that is to talk about habits and ro