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When Asking about time
When does she come? Where
Asking in or what place or position
Where do you buy shoes?
Which Asking about choice
Which color do you want?
Who Asking about person or
people subject Who comes today?
Whom Asking about person or
people subject Whom do you know?
Why Asking for reason
Why do you say like that?
How
4 How long
5 How Far
6 How often
7 How many
8 How old
9 How Much
Asking about manner
Asking about duration
Asking about distance
Asking about frequency
Asking about quantity countable
Asking about age
Asking about quantity uncountable
How do you go to school?
How long do they stay here?
How far is pattaya from Bangkok
How often do you clean bedroom?
How many books do you have?
How old are you?
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B. Simple Present Tense
1. Definition of Simple Present
There are many definitions of simple present will be explained by the writer.
In academic writing it is stated that “The simple present tense is the verb tense used to state facts and describe repeated activities”.
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It can be seen that simple present tense is used to expressing fact and repeated events or habits.
According to English book suggested that “Tense in present is a time form which is used to express activity or situations was happened at now in simple
form or about thing that happen regularly, repeatedly or all the time.”
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It can be concluded that simple present tense is used to speak something at the present
moments. Meanwhile Betty S. Azar says that “The simple present is something way
true in the past, is true in the present, and will be true in the future, is use for general statement of fact.”
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It show that simple present tense are the most common ways of expressing present time in English and describes things that are
generally true, expressing fact and repeated events habits
a. The Rules of Using Simple Present
In simple present, there are many rules which the learners have to know on using verb with ‘es’ and ‘s’ form as follow:
1 If the verbs that end in ‘e’ just add ‘s’, for example: Write + s writes
shine + s shines Hope + s hopesrise + s rises
2 If the verb that end in one and two consonants just add ‘s’, for example: Work + s works
sing + s sings set + s sets
help + s helps read + s reads speak + s speaks
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Alice Oshima Ann Houge, Introduction to Academic Writing, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1988, p.23.
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Rudi Hartono Andrew Mc. Cathy,…p. 407.
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Betty S. Azar, Understanding and Using English Grammar,New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, Second Edition, p.11.
