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Present Perfect Tense

A simple and easy guide to present perfect tense.

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Present perfect tense

Present perfect tense is used to talk about connection of


present with past or a past action which the result is in
present or an unfinished action.
Subject + have/has + past participle + object.
Ex: he has finished his project.
Ex: she has had her graduation.
Ex: we have already done the dishes.
Simple past: -finished action -time expression
Ex: I spoke to him three times last week.
Present perfect tense: -unfinished action – no time
expression
Ex: I have spoken to him three times this week.

Places where you could use present perfect tense:


Recent past:
Ex: I have just gotten out of shower.
Ex: they have just eaten lunch.
Repetitive past:
Ex: I have worked on this type of file before.
Ex: she has shopped from this store for many years.

Note 1: this tense is mostly about the result and not the
time when it happened.
Ex: I have eaten breakfast.
Ex: they have gone to Moscow.
Note 2: we don’t use this tense with the words like:
yesterday, last night, last week, last month, last year…
Ex: yesterday I have had dinner. Wrong
Ex: last year we have livid in Kabul. Wrong

Something that is true in both past and present:


Ex: I lost my book. It was true in the past but not
anymore since you found it.
Ex: I have lost my book. It is still true and your book is still
gone.
Ex: I have seen that movie. You had watched that movie
in the past but you still remember it and it has an effect
on your present.
Negative form:
subject + have/ has + not + past participle + object.
Ex: I have not talked to him yet.
Ex: they haven’t met each other.
Ex: she has not learned her lesson.
Question form:
Have/has + subject + past participle + object?
Ex: have you cleaned your room?
Ex: has she submitted the homework?
Ex: have you ever ridden a bike?

Contrasted form: have, delete the ha and add an


apostrophe: I’ve
Have not, delete the o and add an apostrophe between
the n and t: I haven’t
Has, delete the ha and an apostrophe: she’s
She’s, can also mean ‘she is’ but according to the context
of the sentence you could tell whether it is present
continuous tense or present perfect.
Past participle
Past participle needs a type of auxiliary verb
(have/has/had). Past participle with regular only gets an
ed but with irregular verbs they are different.
Present Simple past Past participle
Speak Spoke Spoken
Go Went Gone
Break Broke Broken
Buy Bought Bought
Come Came Come
Cut Cut Cut
Do Did Done
Drink Drank Drunk
Fall Fell Fallen
Eat Ate Eaten
Find Found Found
Forget Forgot Forgotten/ forgot
Freeze Froze Frozen
Get Got Gotten
Give Gave Given
Say Said Said
Grow Grew Grown
Have/ has Had Had
Hit Hit Hit
Hear Heard Heard
Know Knew Known
Leave Left Left
Make Made Made
Read Read Read

Home work:
10 sentences for present perfect tense.
5 sentences for negative form.
5 sentences for question form.

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