{"id":1376,"date":"2019-06-12T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.orochinagi.com\/?page_id=1376"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:20:02","slug":"present-simple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/grammar\/present-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not simple!<\/em><\/p>\n

I work.\u00a0 I play.\u00a0 I eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

= I do this, in general, every time.<\/p>\n

The negative:<\/p>\n

I don’t work. I don’t play. I don’t eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Question form:<\/p>\n

Do you work? Do you play? Do you eat?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Usage problems – “in general” vs “just for now”:<\/h1>\n

Sometimes we need to express something “in general” because present continuous expresses a temporary action, it is “just for now”.<\/p>\n

I recommend = every time, for every situation, every time you ask<\/p>\n

I am recommending = only at this moment!<\/p>\n

If you need a recommendation, which would you prefer?<\/p>\n

It is the same with: advise, suggest, apologise,\u00a0 insist, agree, refuse…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even with “to promise”, the speaker is talking about doing something every time, not just now.<\/p>\n

o: I promise<\/p>\n

x: I am promising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not simple! I work.\u00a0 I play.\u00a0 I eat. = I do this, in general, every time. The negative: I don’t work. I don’t play. I don’t eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":510,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}