The simple present tense simply talks about present. In affirmative, the simple present tense has the same form as the infinitive form of verb but adds an s for the third person singular subject.

Affirmative                 Negative

I talk                              I do not talk

You talk                       You do not talk

She/he/it talks        She/he/it does not talk

We talk                         We do not talk

They talk                      They do not talk

Interrogative         Negative interrogative

Do I talk?                    Do I not talk?

Do you talk?              Do you not talk?

Does he talk?            Does he not talk?

Do we talk?                Do we not talk?

Do they talk?             Do they not talk?

One can always use contractions in Negative statements and negative interrogatives.

I don’t talk.                        Don’t I talk?

She doesn’t talk.              Doesn’t she talk?

For third person singular subject, verb usually takes an s in the end. 

It talks.

She dances.

Verbs ending in x, ss, sh, ch and o take es in the end. 

He watches.

It presses.

Verbs ending in y take ies in the end.

The bird flies.

My dad carries.

The simple present tense is used to express:

* Habitual actions/routines

    A cat loves to drink milk.

    She works in the night shift.

    Dogs bark.

    We go to gurudwara on Sundays.

    Whenever it rains heavily, the roofs of these houses leak.

* Words quoted from books, notices or letters using the verb say

   The board says ‘No parking’.

   Shakespeare says ‘ The world is a stage’.

* Newspaper headlines

    TREATY TALKS FAIL

    STATE FACES CRISIS

* An itinerary or planned future action

    We leave Delhi tomorrow morning at 0600 hrs and reach Mumbai at 0900 hrs. We have two consecutive meetings to attend and leave again for Hyderabad at 1400 hrs.

* Conditional clauses

    When it rains, I’ll launch paper boats.

    When she comes, we’ll go out for shopping.