一般时态
一般时态表示现在、过去或将来的动作状态或特征。
1、一般现在时
(1)一般现在时表示没有时限的持久存在的习惯性的动作或状态,或现阶段反复发生的动作或状态,常和副词usually,often, always, sometimes, regularly, near, occasionally, every year等连用。
例:His is always like that.
例:Mr.Smith travels to work by bus every day.
史密斯先生每天乘公共汽车去上班。
(2)在由after, until, before, once, when, even if ,in case, as long as, as soon as, the moment以及if, unless等引导的时间状语从句或条件状语从句中,通常用一般现在时代替将来时。
例:I will tell him the news as soon as I see him.
我一看见他,就把消息告诉他。
(3)某些表示起始的动词,可用一般现在时表示按规定、计划或安排要发生的动作,这类动词有:be, go, come, start, depart, arrive, begin, leave等。
(4)在由why, what, where, whoever, who, that,as等引导的从句中,也常用一般现在时代替将来时。
例:Tomorrow at this time we’ll give $500 to any one who brings him to justice.