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Present Perfect Mind Map

The document discusses the present perfect simple tense in English. It provides examples of its positive, negative, and interrogative forms. The present perfect simple is used to talk about recent events or experiences occurring before now that have relevance to the present. It contrasts the present perfect simple with the past simple tense, which is used to talk about definite past events.

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Present Perfect Mind Map

The document discusses the present perfect simple tense in English. It provides examples of its positive, negative, and interrogative forms. The present perfect simple is used to talk about recent events or experiences occurring before now that have relevance to the present. It contrasts the present perfect simple with the past simple tense, which is used to talk about definite past events.

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Structure:

present perfect simple


- Present perfect simple:
+ Positive: Subj.+ have/has + verb in past
participle + complement

past simple
Negative: Subj.+ haven't/hasn't + verb in past
participle + complement

Question: Have/has + subj. + verb in past


participle + complement

Example:She
Example:She Example: I
For: We use has been a
has learned nurse for 5
have gone to
for+ a period Barcelona
English for 7 years Gone:Someone
of time Been:Someone has gone to a
years has gone place and it still Example: The
somewhere and there
government
Example:We We use
since + a
FOR AND SINCE come back
BEEN AND has approved
have been We use present a new law.
married since moment in GONE perfect to talk
2001 the past about recent
events or news. Example:She
We don't know has never
Example: I've
pass the
Positive:
subj. + have/has
PRESENT PERFECT when happen been on a
cruise
history test + verb in past
participle
SIMPLE We use present
perfect to talk about

Example:My
STRUCTURE past experiences in

dog hasn’t Negative: USES our lives


We don’t say when
played with subj. + haven't/hasn't
this experiences
+ verb in past
the ball happened
partiviple + EVER AND Example:He
complement
Ever:We use NEVER We use for talking have been
Example:Has ever for asking
about action or here for three
your dog Interrogative: about life Never:We
experiences Exaple:I've situations that started hours
played with a Have/has + Exaple:Have use it for
subj. + verb in never been talking about in the past and still
ball? you ever
past participle studied to Brazil. experiences continue or are still
+ complement true now
French?
present perfect simple +

past simple
Present perfect: Example:
Example: I Example: I've
We use present Have you
have sung a Yet: We use yet in Still: We use been waiting for
perfect for something prepared the an hour and the
song negative and steal for
you started in the past question sentences diner yet? bus still hasn't
somethingthat
and you haven't We write it at the hasn't come
finished yet end of the sentence happened
Example: You
bought a present perfect vs
pencil
Past Simple:
yet and still
yesterday
We use past simple
for something you past simple Always: it
Example: She
has always
started in the past means been my
and you have "sempre" it's friend.
finished an adverb of

Exaple: She
Positive: Subj.
+ verb in past
present perfect frequency

saw a bird simple (2nd


column) +
past simple simple Recently: it
means
Example: We
have recently
complement finished the
time other pp time "recentment"
and we write it
homework

Example: They
didn't go to
Negative: Subj.
+ didn't + verb
expressions expressions between "have"
and the verb
infinitive +
school last day complement already and
Interrogative: Already: We use it to just Example: I
say that something Just: We use it
So far: it have passed
Did + subj. + means " fins
happened before now. for explaining all the subjects
Example:Did verb infinitive ara"
We write it between the things that so far
you go to the +complement Example:We verb have and the Example:I happened very
beach last have already participle have just had recently (minutes
year? arrived ago).
breakfast

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