~~ 🔳 Present verb forms referring to the Past 🔳~~

We commonly use the present simple to refer to the past when we want to make events sound as if they are happening now.

For examples,

➖News headlines are commonly written in the present simple:
✳️Rebels ATTACK government buildings.
✳️German Finance minister RESIGNS.

➖In formal writing the present simple is also used to refer to important events in the past:
✳️In spring 1984 the government IS defeated and an election TAKES place. By the end of the year the strikes END.

➖We also use the present simple when we tell stories or jokes. It makes them sound more immediate:
✳️It’S seven o’clock in the evening and an old woman WALKS slowly out of her garden and towards the bus stop. The soldier WATCHES her and after a few minutes FOLLOWS her.
✳️ A man WALKS into a restaurant with a monkey on his shoulder. The monkey says, ‘I’d like soup please.’

➖We also use the present simple when we report what people say as part of a story:
✳️It was only eleven o’clock and my mum SAYS, ‘You’re late again.’ And I SAY, ‘No, I’m not.’ Then my dad STARTS to shout.

[Look vs see ]

►We don’t use 'look' with if or whether. We use 'see' instead:

1-Can you look if there are any spoons in the cupboard? [X]
2-Can you see if there are any spoons in the cupboard? [✔️]

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