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Present Tense

0Hello, I am studying about the Present Tense. I already know that Simple Present can be used to express a fact at the present or a present habit. But my teacher says that sometimes the present tense can be used with future or past meaning and that the Simple Present also have some other usage. Help me for I am feeling confused now.0-
  

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0If you take a sentence such as "the train to London leaves at 10:00", you use the present simple because it's part of a schedule (a habit, something that cannot be changed: it leaves every day at 10:00). But then, if it's 09:45, it will also express a future fact, that the train will leave in 15 minutes. 0-

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  • 0If you take a sentence such as "the train to London leaves at 10:00", you use the present simple because it's part of a schedule (a habit, something that cannot be changed: it leaves every day at 10:00).
  • But then, if it's 09:45, it will also express a future fact, that the train will leave in 15 minutes.
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0If you take a sentence such as "the train to London leaves at 10:00", you use the present simple because it's part of a schedule (a habit, something that cannot be changed: it leaves every day at 10:00). But then, if it's 09:45, it will also express a future fact, that the train will leave in 15 minutes. 02br
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