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SIMPLE PRESENT

EL "SIMPLE PRESENT" SE UTILIZA:

• Para expresar hábitos y rutinas, hechos generales, acciones repetidas o situaciones, emociones y deseos permanentes:
  I smoke (hábito); I work in London (permanencia); London is a large city (hecho general)
• Para dar instrucciones o indicaciones:
  You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
• Para hablar de eventos programados, presentes o futuros:
  Your exam starts at 09.00.
• Para referirse al futuro, detrás de algunas conjunciones: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

¡Cuidado! El "simple present" no se utiliza para hablar de lo que está ocurriendo en este momento.

EJEMPLOS

• Hábitos y rutinas
  He drinks tea at breakfast.
  She only eats fish.
  They watch television regularly.
• Eventos y acciones repetidos
  We catch the bus every morning.
  It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
  They drive to Monaco every summer.
• Hechos generales
  Water freezes at zero degrees.
  The Earth revolves around the Sun.
  Her mother is Peruvian.

• Instrucciones o indicaciones
  Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
  You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
• Eventos programados
  His mother arrives tomorrow.
  Our holiday starts on the 26th March
• Construcciones de futuro
  She'll see you before she leaves.