The Simple Present Tense To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions, and wishes: Examples For habits He drinks tea at breakfast. She only eats fish. They watch television regularly. For repeated actions or events We catch the bus every morning. It rains every afternoon in the hot season. They drive to Monaco every summer. In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s : he want s , she need s , he give s , she think s. Negative and question forms use DOES (= the third person of the auxiliary 'DO') + the infinitive of the verb. He want s ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla. Verbs ending in -y : the third person changes the -y to -ies : fly --> fl ies , cry --> cr ies Exception : if there is a vowel before the - y : play --> play s , pray --> pray s Add -es to verbs ending in: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch : he pass es, she catch...