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Lesson 1

Present simple uses

[Music] the present simple tense is a very useful tense and it talks about a very big time on the timeline of events as you can see in this diagram there are five important situ...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Future meaning and examples

i celebrate my birthday every year the fourth situation is for future events for example she has english class tomorrow the restaurant opens at 7 00 p.m tonight and the train le...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Personal pronouns and verb forms

is why this is different when we learn a tense in english we do this with the personal pronouns remember there are seven personal pronouns in english i and we will use these per...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Adding s and es

an s in the he she and it forms let's review another verb watch this is iwatch you watch he watches she watches it watches we watch and they watch this is a little bit different...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

Es endings and y rule

it because the last letters are ch watch the same for go this is why we add e s in the he she it form because go ends in o now let's move on to a different rule in the affirmati...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Consonant plus y verbs

we fly and they fly this ends in y so we eliminate that y and then we add i e and this is why we have he she it flies written like this we are going to review one more verb this...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Affirmative spelling rules

we add s in the he she it forms if it is consonant plus y then we eliminate y and add i e s to the end of the he she it forms only and this is why it's a little bit more difficu...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

Exceptions with have and be

rules but there are two exception verbs have and be the verb have changes in the he she it form i have you have he has she has it has we have they have and you should already kn...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

Negative forms with do and does

for he she it the verb don't changes to doesn't she doesn't read really important this is the infinitive not reads read he doesn't read it doesn't read we don't read and they do...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 10

Negative forms of be

we don't have they don't have the only verb that is completely different is the verb to be but you should already know this at your level this is i'm not you aren't he isn't she...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 11

Wh questions with do and does

for example like an example question could be what do you like what does he like all four parts and we can replace the question word and the infinitive verb to change the meanin...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 12

Yes no questions

the end for example do you sing does he sing and we can replace the infinitive verb to change the question for example do i dance do they dance and the final question structure...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 13

Question words

ask about a time we need when a person we need who these are all the question words you should already know if you only want a yes or a no answer then we don't need a question w...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 14

Questions with be

no other verbs in the sentence remember our examples who am i quas structure there is no other verb who am verb to be i no other verb the same as the as structure am i a teacher...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 15

Questions with another verb

which is our infinitive verb so this is a quasi structure if we put this on our question tree do we want a question word yes is there another verb yes quasi another example wher...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 16

Short answers

english yes or no it's very basic very simple and sometimes a little bit rude so we create a special structure to say the same information yes or no but in a nice and a polite w...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 17

Short answers with be

if it's a different auxiliary verb the verb to be for example are you happy then our response needs the verb to be for example are you happy yes i am this is the verb to be and...

Language: enDuration: 1 min

Lesson 18

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Full video: Present Simple Tense Grammar Rules

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