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PDF exercises with answers to download for free:
Present simple PDF worksheet 1 (verb to be)
- Complete short dialogues with positive, negative and questions forms.
Present simple PDF worksheet 2 (questions)
- Practise do/does questions.
Present simple PDF worksheet 3 (wh- questions)
- Practise why- questions.
Present simple PDF worksheet 4 (negative)
- Learn how to make negative forms (don't - doesn't).
Present simple PDF worksheet 5 (third person singular)
- Practise -s, -es, and -ies endings in the third person singular.
Present simple PDF worksheet 6 (mixed exercise)
- Compare affirmative, negative and question forms.
Online exercises with answers:
Present simple exercises: questions
- My brother Mark. Complete the conversation.
- Make negative questions with full forms and short forms.
Present simple exercises: negative forms
- Correct the wrong information in the knowledge quiz.
- What a good student doesn't do? Choose correct answers.
Present simple exercises: third person singular
- Why does little Sam get up so early? Complete the story about Sam's kitten.
- My dear family. Choose the verbs from the list to complete sentences.
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Present simple vs. present continuous tense PDF worksheets + online exercises.
Grammar rules PDF:
Present simple use and forms PDF
Present simple tense
We mostly use the base form of the verb to make the present simple affirmative.
I work in San Francisco. You eat too much chocolate. We get up early. They live in an old house.
Third person singular
In the third person singular (he, she, it) we add -s to the base form.
Peter plays tennis. My sister tries to change her job. Our son goes to primary school.
Questions
We use do or does to make questions in the present simple.
Do you know Greg? Does he go to the same school?
Negative questions normally express a surprise.
Does he not work? Doesn't he work?
If the wh- pronoun introducing the question (who, which) is the subject of the question, we do not use the auxiliary verb do.
Who knows you? Which cars belong to you?
Negative forms
The negative forms are made with do not (don't) or does not (doesn't).
I do not (don't) know. Marion does not (doesn't) want to study.
Verb to be
The verb to be has completely different forms:
I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, they are.
We add not after the verb to be to make negatives.
I am not, you are not, it is not.
Questions are made in a simple way. We just change the word order of a statement.
Am I? Are you? Is he?
In spoken English, however, we normally use short forms.
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