{"id":1893,"date":"2017-02-20T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:23:26","slug":"formation-of-questions-and-negatives-in-the-simple-present-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/formation-of-questions-and-negatives-in-the-simple-present-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Formation of questions and negatives in the simple present tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formation of questions and negatives in the simple present tense.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/uses-of-the-simple-present-tense\/\"><strong>simple present tense<\/strong>,<\/a> we make questions and negatives with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/do-does-emphatic-use.htm\"><strong>do<\/strong> or <strong>does<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>Do<\/strong> is used when the subject is a plural noun or pronoun (you, we, they). The first person pronoun<strong> I<\/strong> also take the verb <strong>do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What <strong>do<\/strong> I do? I <strong>run<\/strong> a website.<\/li>\n<li>Where <strong>do <\/strong>they work? They <strong>work<\/strong> at an insurance company.<\/li>\n<li>How do you know her? I know her through a common friend.<\/li>\n<li>Where do they live? They live in the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Does <\/strong>is used when the subject is a singular noun or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/personal-pronouns.htm\">third person pronoun<\/a> (he, she and it).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When <strong>does <\/strong>Susmita <strong>get<\/strong> up? Susmita <strong>gets<\/strong> up at five o\u2019clock. (<strong>NOT <\/strong>When <strong>does <\/strong>Susmita <strong>gets<\/strong> up?)<\/li>\n<li>Where <strong>does <\/strong>Roopa <strong>work<\/strong>? Roopa <strong>works<\/strong> at a bank.<\/li>\n<li>What does Rahul do? Rahul works at a factory.<\/li>\n<li>Where <strong>does<\/strong> she stay? She <strong>stays<\/strong> in a lodge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does<\/strong> she <strong>earn<\/strong> well? Yes, she <strong>earns<\/strong> a handsome salary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formation of questions and negatives in the simple present tense. In the simple present tense, we make questions and negatives with do or does. Do is used when the subject is a plural noun&#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":[251],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-simple-present-tense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}