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The Present Perfect Tense in English | Structuring Sentences
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The present perfect is formed, in the affirmative, as follows
Subject + have + past participle + object.
I + have + climbed + the mountain!
Example: have climbed the mountain!
The past participle is, often, the same as the past simple form of the verb (although not always so be sure to learn them!), except it has a different function here. The auxiliary verb is the one linked to the subject; the past participle simply denotes the action while the I have…, You have…, etc. denotes who had the experience.
Conjugating the Present Perfect (affirmative)
I have climbed the mountain
You have climbed the mountain
He/She has climbed the mountain
We have climbed the mountain
They have climbed the mountain
As is quite common in English, all these conjugations are the same except for one: the third person. One must be careful to remember this exception. Apart from this, the present perfect is quite simple; now you can go forth fully equipped to brag about your experiences in any conversation!
Forming the Present Perfect (negative)
The present perfect (negative) is formed as follows:
Subject + have + not + past participle + object.
We + have + not + eaten + Thai food.
We have not eaten Thai food.
Conjugating the Present Perfect (affirmative)
I have not eaten Thai food
You have not eaten Thai food
He/She has not eaten Thai food
We have not eaten Thai food
They have not eaten Thai food
It is important to keep in mind the order of the various parts of these phrases. Remember always that the negation (not) goes between the auxiliary verb and the past participle.
We can also employ a contraction here which will make conversation easier. In this case there are two contractions to be learned
have not ⇒ haven’t
has not ⇒ hasn’t
With our newly learned contractions, the conjugations become
I haven’t eaten Thai food
You haven’t eaten Thai food
He/She hasn’t eaten Thai food
We haven’t eaten Thai food
They haven’t eaten Thai food
Forming the Present Perfect (interrogative)
The present perfect (interrogative) is formed as follows
Have + subject + past participle + object?
Have + you + visited + South Carolina?
Have you visited South Carolina?
Conjugating the Present Perfect
Have I visited South Carolina ?
Have you visited South Carolina ?
Has he/she visited South Carolina ?
Have we visited South Carolina ?
Have they visited South Carolina ?
Again, we can add negation in order to affect emphasis. For example
Robert: Do you know much about Elvis Presley?
John: Haven’t I visited Memphis?
John answers Robert’s question with another question, which he believes should suffice as an answer. In this case, John means that he indeed knows much about Elvis Presley and has even visited his home in Memphis.
With the negation (and contraction), our interrogative conjugations become:
Haven’t I visited Memphis?
Haven’t you visited Memphis?
Hasn’t he/she visited Memphis?
Haven’t we visited Memphis?
Haven’t they visited Memphis?
PRESENT PERFECT or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS? | the difference
What’s the difference between the PRESENT PERFECT and the PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS?
In today’s lesson, we’ll cover the grammar basics
present perfect: have/has + past participle
present perfect continuous: have/has + been + verb ‘ing’
…and we’ll look at multiple examples so the differences are clear for you.
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Present Perfect
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Everyday Grammar: Discovery Verbs (Present Perfect Tense)
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The Present Perfect is used to indicate a link between the present and the past. The time of the action is before now but not specified, and we are often more interested in the result than in the action itself.
To make the positive present perfect tense, use:
• ‘have’ / ‘has’ + the past participle
• Make the past participle by adding ‘ed’ to regular verbs (for example, ‘play’ becomes ‘played’)
• There are a few verbs that change their spelling when you add ‘ed’ (for example, ‘study’ becomes ‘studied’)
• We also have some completely irregular verbs
The negative is really simple too. Just put ‘not’ after ‘have’ or ‘has’.
To make a question, put ‘have’ or ‘has’ in front of the subject.
We use the Present Perfect:
1. To talk about unfinished actions or states or habits that started in the past and continue to the present:
I’ve lost my keys (so I can’t get into my house)
2. To talk about life experience.
Melany has been to France four times
3. With an unfinished time word (today, this week, this month, this year, etc.)
They have drunk too much tea today
Signal words tell you what tense you have to use. For the Present Perfect the following words are used quite often:
• just
• yet
• never
• already
• ever
• so far
• recently
• since
• for
The main difference between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple is that we use the Present Perfect to talk about unfinished actions and we use the Past Simple to talk about finished actions:
I’ve worked here for five years (and I still work here)
I worked here for five years (I no longer worker here)
Time codes:
0:00 The most confusing English tense
0:39 The thing you need to remember about the Present Perfect
1:11 How to form the Present Perfect tense (positive)
3:32 What you should never do on tests
4:34 How to form the Present Perfect tense (negative)
4:48 How to form the Present Perfect tense (question)
5:51 When we need to use Present Perfect
7:42 Quick test
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