Present SimpleNegative

Present SimpleNegative

What? When? How?What? When? How?

Revision 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 activityWhen 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:

• 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 NegativeNegative sentenceHow 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).

doבהווה פשוט אנו מייבאים את פועל העזר כדי שיעזור לנו להפוך את המשפט לשלילה.

פועל העזר מקבל בתמורה לעזרתו את כל ;s/es)התוספות שהפועל היה צריך לקבל.

not)

A Negative sentenceHow do we form it? (2)

He She It

doesn’t readbooks every day.

SubjectVerbRest of the sentence

I We You They

don’t read books every day.

Special verbs 1The verb to be behaves in a special way. It doesn’t want another helping verb:

I am nothappy.

We You They

are nothappy.

He She It

is not happy.

SubjectSubjectVerbRest of the sentence

Special verbs 2The verb to have doesn’t behave in a special way in the negative form.

I We You They

don’t havea computer.

He She It

doesn’t have

a computer.

SubjectSubjectVerbVerbRest of the Rest of the sentencesentence

Special verbs 3there are special verbs (Modals) which don’t need a helping verb to form the negative

I We You They He She It

can not (can’t)may notshould not

(shouldn’twould not

(wouldn’t)must not (mustn’t)

sing.

SubjectModalsVerb

It is time to practice your knowledgeDouble click on:

Exercise 1Exercise 2Exercise 3Exercise 4 Exercise 5Exercise 6

Now you know how to form affirmative and negative sentences in the present simple.

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Do you know how to ask questions?