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B1 Section 1 : Present simple Present continuous Past simple Future…
B1 Section 1 :
Present simple
Present continuous
Past simple
Future Simple
Present simple with
do
can sometimes also use
do
and
does
in normal, positive sentences in the present simple. This is called using
do
for emphasis
with imperatives. This makes them stronger but it's quite polite
it just to make the present simple stronger.
Present continuous for habits in the present
we can often choose the present simple or present continuous to talk about the same habit
you can use the present continuous to talk about habits that are not regular
so the sentence has a negative or annoyed feeling. But this isn't always true.
'He's always smiling'
adverbs like
always,forever,constantly
The present simple is neutral emotionally, and often suggests that the habits happen at regular times.
adverbs like
every morning
Past simple
and
would
with wish
we use the past simple in the second conditional to talk about unreal things in the present.
Wish + past simple' doesn't give us the feeling of blame – it's just a fact.
I wish (that)
We also use
would
when we are talking about someone else's behaviour that we want to change.
It's often blaming the other person a little bit for doing something we don't like.
Sometimes, we imagine that something like our car or our computer or the weather has feelings and behaviour that we'd like to change!
for past habits and states
we can use the past simple to talk about states and habits (or repeated actions) in the past.
use the past simple to talk about a state in the past (often with a stative verb).
He
was
very slim when he was a child.
use
used to + infinitive
to talk about states in the past. The meaning is very similar to the past simple.
don't need to make it clear when the state existed.
to talk about repeated actions or habits in the past.
In the past, many people rode horses.
also use
would + infinitive
and
used to + infinitive
to talk about habits in the past.
for ordering actions
to say that one thing happened before another thing.
In this case, normally the first action that we say is the one that happened first.
I went home and
had
dinner. (This means that first I went home and then second I had dinner.)
also use the past simple to talk about things that happened at the same time or more or less the same time.
I studied French and I enjoyed it.