Present simple

Do you have your passport with you?

ADVERB PLACEMENT
The examples below show the placement for grammar adverbs such as: always, only, never, ever, still, just, etc.
Examples:

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  You only speak English.
  
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  Do you only speak English?
  

ACTIVE / PASSIVE
Examples:

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  Once a week, Tom cleans the car. Active
  
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  Once a week, the car is cleaned by Tom. passive
  

How do we make the Present Simple Tense?

subject	+	auxiliary verb	+	main verb
		do		base

There are three important exceptions :

1. 
   for positive sentences, we do not normally use the auxiliary .
   
2. 
   For the 3rd person singular (he, she, it), we add s to the main verb or es to the auxiliary.
   
3. 
   For the verb to be , we do not use an auxiliary, even for questions and negatives.
   

Look at these examples with the main verb like :

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I, you, we, they			like	coffee.
	He, she, it			like s	coffee.
-	I, you, we, they	do	not	like	coffee.
	He, she, it	do es	not	like	coffee.
?	Do	I, you, we, they		like	coffee?
	Do es	he, she, it		like	coffee?

Look at these examples with the main verb be . Notice that there is no auxiliary:

	subject	main verb
+	I	am		French.
	You, we, they	are		French.
	He, she, it	is		French.
-	I	am	not	old.
	You, we, they	are	not	old.
	He, she, it	is	not	old.
?	Am	I		late?
	Are	you, we, they		late?
	Is	he, she, it		late?

How do we use the Present Simple Tense?

We use the present simple tense when:

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  the action is general
  
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  the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
  
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  the action is not only happening now
  
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  the statement is always true
  

John drives a taxi.
past	present	future
It is John's job to drive a taxi. He does it every day. Past, present and future.

Clean Language is a communications methodology developed by David J Grove, a New Zealand 'Counselling Psychologist', during the 1980s and 1990s.
While initially used in clinical therapy, Clean Language offers helpful techniques to all professional communicators, especially those working closely with others.
Clean Language techniques are aligned closely with modern 'enabling' principles of empathy, and understanding, as opposed to traditional 'manipulative' (conscious or unconscious) methods of influence and persuasion and the projection of self-interest.
Clean Language helps people to convey their own meaning, free of emotional or other distracting interpretation from others.
As such Clean Language promotes better clarity of communications, neutrality and objectivity (absence of emotional 'spin', bias and prejudice), ease of understanding, and cooperative productive relationships.
These Clean Language materials are written exclusively for Businessballs by Judy Rees, a UK-based Clean Language expert and author. The text draws extensively on Judy's co-authored book, Clean Language, Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds. The contribution of these Clean Language learning materials is gratefully acknowledged.
clean language - overview
Clean Language is a questioning and discussion technique used especially for discovering, exploring and working with people's own personal metaphors.
The word 'metaphor' here refers to thinking or expressing something in terms of a different concept or image. For example if someone says, "It's like..." or "It's as if…" then the next thing you'll hear is probably a metaphor.
Expressions such as sick as a dog, over the moon, and ready for battle, are all metaphors. The person isn't really sick as a dog, or over the moon, or ready for battle. The expressions are images, partly for dramatic effect, and partly because a metaphor is often the most natural and easy way to convey a meaning.
A metaphor is the use of imagery, to represent thoughts and feelings. Spoken and written language is full of metaphors.
Metaphors and imagery are potentially very useful in communications because they make abstract ideas more tangible, and can wrap large amounts of subtle and complex information, including emotional information, into a relatively small package. (That's an example of a metaphor..)
Aside from clinical therapy, Clean Language is most commonly used in executive coaching, but its relative simplicity and its unusual approach to metaphor make it useful in a wide range of other contexts, working with individuals and with groups.
For example Clean Language is now being used in:

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  recruitment interviews
  
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  team development and motivation
  
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  gathering requirements for projects, like IT development
  
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  market research
  
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  business strategy development
  
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  counseling
  
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  and conflict resolution.
  

metaphor and clean language
We use metaphor easily and naturally to communicate complex ideas, and to understand other people's ideas.
For example, great speeches and written work tend to contain powerful and memorable metaphors.
Shakespeare's metaphor 'All the world's a stage' is a particularly notable example.
Advertisers too have discovered that metaphors move us in a way that goes straight to the heart - or to the wallet - because metaphors are such a powerful vehicle for conveying meanings.
Metaphors are also extremely common in our everyday speech.
Research (Gibbs, Raymond W Jr., 'Categorization and metaphor understanding', Psychological Review 99[3]) has shown that we use up to six metaphors per minute in English, mostly unconsciously and unnoticed. This is because metaphors underpin our thinking, and bubble to the surface in the words we use. Metaphors are a natural language of the mind, particularly the unconscious mind.