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She does not have any lunch at home.
3) All the modal verbs do not take the inflexion -s in the 3rd person singular. They form their interrogative
and negative forms without the auxiliary to do.
§ 19. The present indefinite.
1. To state facts in the present.
I live in St.-Petersburg.
Most dogs bark.
It’s a long way to Tipperary.
2. To state general rules or laws of nature, that is to show that something was true in the past, is true in the
present, and will be true in the future.
It snows in winter.
Snow melts at 0°C.
Two plus two makes four.
3. To denote habitual actions or everyday activity.
They get up at 8.
On Sundays we stay at home.
Do you often go to the dancing hall?
4. To denote actions and states continuing at the moment of speaking (with statal and relational verbs,
verbs of sense and mental perception.)
Who does the car belong to?
I do not see what you are doing.
Now I hear you perfectly well.
I do not understand you at all.
5. To express declarations, announcements, etc. referring to the moment of speaking.
I declare the meeting open.
I agree to your proposal.
I offer you my help.
6. To denote a succession of action going on at the moment of speaking.
Now watch me closely: I take a match, light it, put it into the glass and ... oh, nothing happens!
7. To denote future actions.
a)
Mostly with verbs of motion (to go, to come, to start, to leave, to return, to arrive, to sail and some
other verbs), usually if the actions denote a settled plan and the future time is indicated:
I go to Moscow next week.
They start on Sunday.
She leaves for England in two months.
What do you do next Sunday?
b)
In adverbial clauses of time and condition after the conjunctions when, till, until, as soon as, as long