Abstract:
The aims of this reseacrh are to describe the English and French Tense in order to
find out the similarities and differences in their usages and structure, which is
significant to enchance the students impression of two language Tense and clarify
some misunderstandings in both English Tense and French Tense learning. This
study deals with the contrastive analysis of Simple Present Tense in English and
French. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative methode and
was taken place in the library of UMSU. The data was collected by reading some
English and French grammar books, especially about Simple Present Tense and
the data from internet to complate this study. The data classified into it ways of
classification based on the form and function analysis to find the similarities and
diffrences between English and French. Based on the analysis it was found that
many similarities and diffrences of simple present tense in English and French in
form and function. Like in form the similarities is express habit, express general
truth, express repitition action and in form the are the similarites in position in
form and the diferences in form if in French all infinitive ending -ir,- re or -er
while in English we only need to edd s or es to the verb if the singular person and
in French every subject has different verb form
