Simple Tenses - Basic English Grammar
Grammar & Vocabulary8 MinMarch 2026

Simple Tenses - Basic English Grammar

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English GrammarTensesSpoken English

Present Simple

Use the present simple for routines, habits, facts, and regular events. Add s or es with he, she, and it.

Checklist
  1. 1I study English every day.
  2. 2She works near Dwarka Mor.
  3. 3Water boils at 100 degrees.

Past Simple

Use the past simple for finished actions at a known or understood past time. Regular verbs take -ed and irregular verbs must be learned individually.

Future Simple

Use will for decisions, predictions, promises, and offers. Use going to for plans and intentions that have already been decided.

Questions and Negatives

Use do and does in the present and did in the past. After these auxiliaries, use the base form of the main verb.

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