Present+Perfect

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

When? We use the Present Perfect Tense to describe an activity that happened in the past, but its consequences can be seen now.

Examples:


 * //You have painted the room//. (It is still painted)
 * //I have broken my arm//. ( It is still broken)
 * //He has studied Maths//. (He still remembers the lesson)

How?

 We form the Present Perfect with the auxiliary verb have in the present (Have/Has) and the past participle of the main verb. (-ed for the regular verbs and the 3rd column for the irregular verbs)

 Examples:


 * She (drive) - //She has driven or She's driven.//
 * We (move) - //We have moved or We've moved//.

To make the sentences negative we add "not" to the auxiliary verb Have.

 //She hasn't driven, We haven't moved.//

 To make questions <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">we change the order of the Subject and the Auxiliary verb.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Examples:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> //Have you finished?// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> //Have you painted the wall?//

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> TIME EXPRESSIONS:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> We can't use the Present Perfect Tense with specific time expressions as for example "yesterday", "2 days ago", "last summer"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> We use the Present Perfect with expressions like [|"ever", "yet", "already", "just"] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Examples:


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//Have you ever written a poem?//
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//I haven't finished yet.//
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//She has already gone home.//
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//We have just seen her.//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">or prepositions as "[|for" or "since]".


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//We have been friends for 8 years.//
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//We have been friends since 2002.//

Difference between the Present Perfect and the Simple Past Tense.


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">__Present Perfec__t is used when the time period <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> has not finished <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">; "I have seen your mother this week" (The week has not finished)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">__Past Simple__ is used when the time period <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">is finished <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">, "I saw your mother last week" (Last Week has already finished)


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">__Present Perfect__ is used when the <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">time period is not specific <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> " We have seen that movie" (We don't know exactly when)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">__Past Simple__ is used when the time period <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> is clear. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> " We saw that movie last Monday"

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