The present simple tense is the most commonly used English tense. In general, we use it to talk about habits, facts, thoughts, and feelings.

This MindLearn infographic will show you 8 different situations in which it is essential to use the present simple tense:

1. Something that is true in the present
2. Something that is always true
3. Something that happens regularly in the present
4. Something that is fixed in the future
5. Expressing the future using a conditional sentence
6. Headlines
7. Description of historical events
8. Telling a story or a joke

The present simple tense is used in many other situations, and this MindLearn infographic will show you all of them.