Lesson H Main?

H-gram
Grammar Music
Can you hear it yet?

Are you still just sitting there not using this language?
Here's another thing you can do with what you know: Ask about buying something.  If you don't have a low-cost phone (like Skype) ask through e-mail. Call or e-mail a pizza store in the US.  Say "How much is a large pizza with pepperoni?" Because they want to sell you something, they will listen very carefully to understand you.  Also, they will try very hard to make themselves understandable. They won't make you red-faced. They want your money. Perhaps if you are successful in your talk, they will ask you where to bring it.  Then you can say Budapest or Seoul or Buenos Aires or wherever you are. Have fun!

Present Simple Tense of the Verb

Some people think "Why not give Present Simple first? It's just one word! Like, I walk is not hard to say." We waited until now to give you Present Simple because Present Simple is not so simple.  It changes with the third person. And most of the time, it needs other words to help its meaning.

First of all just think: Which of these says what you are doing right now?

1.  I study.

2.  I am studying.

Why did you choose number 2?  Because number 1 - I study - means you do it generally but you are NOT doing it at this moment. 

Now watch this:

I work a lot.
You work a lot.
S/He works a lot.
We work a lot.
You work a lot.
They work a lot.

Of course you saw that the third person (he, she, it) adds an "s". But another thing you will notice is that the Present Simple verb usually has to add other words to make a meaning.

I work a lot.
She works at the store.
They work on Sundays.

And now we can look at negative sentences.




Present Simple: it is the name of a tense, used for speaking about usual things happening in the present (Up)