present perfect

HAVE / HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE

The Present Perfect

He HAS just FOUND A four-leaf clover.

THE PRESENT PERFECT

Form of the Present PerfectIYouWeThey

Positive

have + past participle

Negative

have not + past participle

Question

Have + Subject + past participle

HeSheIt

has + past participle

has not + past participle

Has+ Subject + past participle

EXAMPLESAFFIRMATIVE: He HAS BOUGHT a skateboard. INTERROGATIVE: HAS Bart BOUGHT a bike? NEGATIVE: He HASN´T bOUGHT a bike, he

has bought a skateboard,

PAST PARTICIPLES

□ For regular verbs, just add “ed”.

He has finishED.

□ For irregular verbs, use the participle form (see LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS , 3rd column).

They have EATEN

Use of Present Perfect

□Action still going on :

School has not started yet.

□Action that stopped recently :

She has cooked dinner.

Use of Present Perfect

□ Finished action that has an influence on the present:

I have lost my key.

□ Action that has taken place once, never or several times before the moment of speaking :

I have never been to Australia

Signal Words of Present Perfect

□ Already□ Ever□ Just□ Never□ Yet / Not yet□ For□ Since □ So far□ Till now□ Up to now

Exercises on Present Perfect

□HAVE OR HAS? □POSITIVE SENTENCES□NEGATIVE SENTENCES□QUESTIONS□TEST 1 on PRESENT PERFECT□TEST 2 on PRESENT PERFECT□TEST 3 on PRESENT PERFECT