Talk:Simple present

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Moving to simple present[edit]

Present simple → Simple present — This page should be called simple present, but because there is already a redirect page called present simple, I am unable to move it. — Île_flottante~Floating island ^Talk 01:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with this assessment. Both terms are acceptable, but "present simple" is the more commonly used. Compare the following Google hits:

simple present (NOT present simple) = 181,000 hits
present simple (NOT simple present) = 1,150,000 hits
simple present (NOT present simple) on U.S. university websites = 11,300 hits
present simple (NOT simple present) on U.S. university websites = 25,800 hits

While Google hits are by no means definitive, I think these figures (from both popular and academic sources) give enough support to keep the page where it is. —Zach425 ^talk/contribs 05:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at a grammar, for example "A practical English grammar", ISBN: 978-0-19-431342-1, the tern simple present is used.--Île_flottante~Floating island ^Talk 13:56, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A missed topic[edit]

Explainings about the simple present's rules are missed עברית (talk) 18:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To have[edit]

Why isn't there anything about that verb, I would add it. But I don't know where. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sir10Shawn (talk • contribs) 17:32, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Englis[edit]

Holandés Jejejejeje Mención Mención !donde 186.150.144.70 (talk) 00:36, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

more citations needed[edit]

This articles needs in my opinion more citations. 181.41.0.147 (talk) 18:56, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Simple present[edit]

The simple present, present simple or present indefinite is one of the verb forms associated with the present tense in modern English. It is commonly referred to as a tense, although it also encodes certain information about aspect in addition to present time. The simple present is the most commonly used verb form in English, accounting for more than half of verbs in spoken English.[1]

It is called "simple" because its basic form consists of a single word (like write or writes), in contrast with other present tense forms such as the present progressive (is writing) and present perfect (has written). For nearly all English verbs the simple present is identical to the base form (dictionary form) of the verb, except when the subject is third-person singular, in which case the ending -(e)s is added. There are a few verbs with irregular forms, the most notable being the copula be, which has the simple present forms am, is, and are 103.82.191.211 (talk) 14:39, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Present simple tens[edit]

Tens is a return that express action with time 196.189.147.32 (talk) 16:18, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Present continues tense[edit]

Welcome to Gboard clipboard, any text that you copy will be saved here. 196.191.120.208 (talk) 18:05, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copy edit tag removal[edit]

I believe we can remove the copy edit tag from this article, but I'd like another GOCE member to review it first. Arcade Ganon (talk) 19:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was going to come over here to say the same thing. I'm going to remove it for now, if anyone thinks that's inappropriate feel free to revert it. 267 04:02, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Present Indefinite tense[edit]

@hgshshshsnnsn 150.129.237.55 (talk) 13:47, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A 102.218.51.171 (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]