Present Simple
Negative
What? When? How?
Revision
Read the passage and find the answers
to the questions that follow.
I don’t like to eat fish. My mother likes fish and she
thinks it is very healthy.
She doesn’t understand me.
My father also nags me and doesn’t understand why I
don’t eat fish.
It is good that I have a cat. It is not picky and it
doesn’t mind eating the fish that I don’t want. (Don’t tell
my parents!)
to nag = ‫לנדנד‬
picky= ‫בררן‬
What are the correct answers?
• The writer’s mother likes/doesn’t like fish.
• The writer likes/doesn’t like fish.
This sentence tells us about a general truth.
• The writer’s parents know/ don’t know that the cat
eats his fish.
This sentence tells us about a state of mind.
When do we use the Simple Present?
(1)
When we speak about general truths or facts.
When we speak about habits or customs.
When we speak about feelings and senses.
Expressing senses, emotions and mental activity
When we speak about states and possession.
When we speak about states of mind or being.
When do we use the Simple Present?
(2)
The following verbs all express states, possession, senses,
emotions and mental activity belong to this group:
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Be, remain (state)
Belong, have (possession)
Like, love, hate, wish, want, seem (feeling and emotion)
Believe, mean, prefer, realize, understand, think (mental
activity)
• see, smell, hear. (senses)
When do we use the Simple Present?
(3)
Future plans (with future time expression) often
refers to timetables or programs.
Sporting events, story telling and jokes.
Actions in the present taking place one after
another
Time expression
• These time expressions appear at the
beginning or the end of the sentence in the
present simple:
every day, each year, once a week,
on Tuesday, regularly, daily, in the evening etc.
More Time expression
• These time expressions appear before the
main verb, or after the verb to be:
always, often, sometimes, seldom, usually,
generally, occasionally, never.
A Negative sentence
How do we form it? (1)
We use the helping verb do to form a
negative sentence. In return, the helping
verb gets all the extras (s / es; not).
‫ כדי‬do ‫בהווה פשוט אנו מייבאים את פועל העזר‬
.‫שיעזור לנו להפוך את המשפט לשלילה‬
‫פועל העזר מקבל בתמורה לעזרתו את כל‬
(s/es; not) .‫התוספות שהפועל היה צריך לקבל‬
A Negative sentence
How do we form it? (2)
Subject
Verb
Rest of the sentence
I
We
You
They
don’t read
books every day.
He
She
It
doesn’t read
books every day.
Special verbs 1
The verb to be behaves in a special way.
It doesn’t want another helping verb:
I
We
You
They
He
She
It
Subject
am not
happy.
are not
happy.
is not
happy.
Verb
Rest of the sentence
Special verbs 2
The verb to have doesn’t behave in a
special way in the negative form.
I
We
You
They
He
She
It
Subject
don’t have
a computer.
doesn’t have a computer.
Verb
Rest of the
sentence
Special verbs 3
there are special verbs (Modals) which don’t
need a helping verb to form the negative
I
We
You
They
He
She
It
Subject
can not (can’t)
may not
should not (shouldn’t sing.
would not (wouldn’t)
must not (mustn’t)
Modals
Verb
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