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Explanation of Present Perfect

This document provides information about the present perfect tense in English. It discusses how the present perfect is used to talk about recent actions, experiences over one's life, events that began in the past and continue to the present, and past events without a specific time frame. It also provides examples of the positive and negative forms of the present perfect and includes a list of common time expressions used with the present perfect. The document concludes with an exercise that tests understanding of the present perfect by having the reader complete sentences in the tense.

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Explanation of Present Perfect

This document provides information about the present perfect tense in English. It discusses how the present perfect is used to talk about recent actions, experiences over one's life, events that began in the past and continue to the present, and past events without a specific time frame. It also provides examples of the positive and negative forms of the present perfect and includes a list of common time expressions used with the present perfect. The document concludes with an exercise that tests understanding of the present perfect by having the reader complete sentences in the tense.

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Present Perfect Simple

Positive
I / you / we / they I have spoken./Ive
spoken.
he / she / it

He has spoken./hes
spoken

Negative

Question

I have not spoken./I havent


spoken.

Have I spoken?

He has not spoken./I hasnt


spoken.

Has he spoken?

Time expressions :
Lately(ltimamente),recently,already(ya), ever(alguna vez),never,since,for, just, never, yet,not yet, so
far(hasta aqu) ,this month,this week,today,in the last year,before,at last, many times, several times,
two times, all my life

We use the Present Perfect

To talk about recent actions:

At 6:00 pm Jon arrived home./At 6:01 we can say: Jon has arrived home.

Do you want to go to a restaurant with me?


No, thanks. I've just eaten lunch.

To talk about our lives,experience: Ive sailed across the Atlantic/ I havent danced the Flamenco.
When we ask people about their lives,we often use ever : Have you ever been to Australia?
When people talk about their lives they sometimes use never : I ve never learned French.

Note : that ever and never come before the past partciple.

Events that began in the past and havent changed (for ,since)

Mike has worked at Nokia for 3 years.(Mike started working at Nokia 3 years ago and he still Works there now)
Julie has worked at Nokia since September last year.(Julie began working at Nokia in September of last year,and that
hasnt changed ,she still works here now.)
To talk about something that happened in the past,but we do not say exactly when it
happened.
I have been to Arequipa three times.(At some unspecified time in the past)
Compare with the simple past: I went to Arequipa three times in 2005.
(specified time in the past-the year 2005)

I Write the participle form of the following verbs


go :______write __________buy__________,invite___________be________,think_________,feel________
II Complete the sentences.

1) I __________________________________________today. (not/work)

2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)

we____________________________________a new lamp.(buy)


my friend________________________________her holiday yet.(not/plan)
Where__________________________________________? (be /you)
___________________________________at school?(be/you)
He______________________________five letters.(write)
School___________________________yet.(not/start)
Where is your mother?
She_________________________________to the supermarket.(go)
9) We______________________________tennis before that day.(not/play)
10) They _________________________________the car. It looks new again.(clean)
11) Im sorry,but I __________________________my homework.(forget)
12) The girls___________________________their lunch yet. (not/eat)
13) We______never_____________________________another country before(visit)
14) How many words__________________________for your language Project?(you/write)
15) Where___________________________________before you moved to Chicago?(you/live)
16) The waiter served something that____________________________________. (not/order)
17) The pupulis _____________________________________their homework.(not/do)
18) Nick cant play football today.He__________an accident with his bike.(have)

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