Present Tenses

Present Tenses:

• Present Simple ("I choose")
• Present Perfect ("I have chosen")
• Present Continuous ("I am choosing")
• Present Perfect Continuous ("I have been choosing")

Present Simple

The present simple is the most basic and common tense in the English language. It is also an interesting tense because it can express both the present and the future.

USE:

1. Facts and generalization
2. Habits and routines
3. Permanent Situations
4. State verbs (e.g. be, have, think, know)
5. Fixed / official arrangement that we can't change

Apart from the above uses, this tense is also used in:

• Zero Conditional - if it rains, I go play football.
• First Conditional - We won't get our pocket money, if we don't pass this exam.
• In sentences after  "When", "Before", "Till", "After", " As soon as", ("Before you leave, please take the keys")

Example:
              A man goes to visit a friend and is amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watches the game in astonishment for a while.