{"id":1594,"date":"2016-10-07T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:16:23","slug":"simple-present-and-simple-past-tense-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/simple-present-and-simple-past-tense-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple present and simple past tense worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>get<\/strong> up at 6.30.<\/li>\n<li>I usually <strong>have<\/strong> my breakfast at 8.30.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>go<\/strong> for a walk every morning.<\/li>\n<li>My father usually <strong>drinks<\/strong> tea in the morning.<\/li>\n<li>I<strong> drink<\/strong> a glass of milk before I go to bed.<\/li>\n<li>My brother <strong>writes<\/strong> with his left hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sentences given above are in the simple present tense. We use the simple present tense to talk about our habits or routines.<\/p>\n<h2>When to use the simple present tense<\/h2>\n<p>Use the simple present tense to talk about customs, habits, routines and general facts.<\/p>\n<p>Some words that indicate simple present tense are: <strong>every day, every Sunday, daily, usually, never, always<\/strong>. Sentences that have these words will most probably be in the simple present tense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <strong>goes<\/strong> to the church every Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>My mother<strong> goes<\/strong> to the temple every day.<\/li>\n<li>She<strong> goes<\/strong> to the market daily.<\/li>\n<li>I usually <strong>get<\/strong> up at 6 am.<\/li>\n<li>She never <strong>leaves<\/strong> home without her cell phone.<\/li>\n<li>He always<strong> says<\/strong> his prayers before eating his meals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see in all of these sentences, we are talking about habits or customs.<\/p>\n<p>Now read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <strong>died<\/strong> in June.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>visited<\/strong> my grandmother yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>India <strong>won<\/strong> just two medals in Rio Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>We <strong>took<\/strong> a vacation last summer.<\/li>\n<li>I<strong> talked<\/strong> to the principal yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sentences given above are in the simple past tense. We use the simple past tense to talk about actions that happened in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to use the simple past tense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Use the simple past tense with time expressions like yesterday, last week, last year, last Friday, in 2010 etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the following sentences. I get up at 6.30. I usually have my breakfast at 8.30. I go for a walk every morning. My father usually drinks tea in the morning. I drink a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-3-worksheets-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-cbse-class-3-worksheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}