Perfect Tenses

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Perfect Tenses

Present Perfect: form and use.Present Perfect with just,already and yet.

Present Perfect with ever, never.Presen Perfect with for, since.

We use the present perfect to talk about an action that happened in the past and has a result in the present.

I’ve forgotten her name. (I can’t remember it now)

I’ve lost my phone (I can’t find it now)

To form the present perfect, we use has/have + past participle:

Perfect TensesPresent Perfect: form and use

Affirmative

I/you/we/they’ve eaten.

he/she/it’s eaten.

Negative I/you/we/they haven’t eaten.

he/she/it hasn’t eaten.

Question Have I/you/we/they eaten?

Has he/she/it eaten?

Short answers

Yes,I/you/we/they have.

No,I/you/we/thwy haven’t

Yes,he/she/it has.

No, he/she/it hasn’t. To form the past participle of regular verbs, we add –ed to the

verb: play played, live lived

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Perfect TensesPresent Perfect with just,already and yet.

We often use just, already and yet with the present perfect.

Just means a very short time ago: It’s just stopped raining. (It stopped raining a short time ago)

Already means before now or before we expected: I don’t need to wash the car. I’ve already done it.

Yet means up to now. We use yet with a negative verb to say tha something has not happened, but we think it will: The train hasn’t arrived yet.

We also use yet in questions: Have you done your homework yet?

Already and just come after have/has.

Yet comes at the end of a sentence or question.

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Perfect TensesPresent Perfect with ever, never.

We can use the present perfect to talk about experiences in our lives up to now: I’ve flown in a helicopter. She hasn’t eaten Chinese food.

We often use ever and never when we talk about experiences.

1.- We use never in statements: We’ve never been to New York.

2.- We use ever in questions to mean at any time: Have you ever ridden a horse?

Ever and never come between has/have and the past participle.

We use This is/It’s the first time with the present perfect: This is the first time I’ve been late for class.

We can also use before: I haven’t been late for class before.

The verb go has two past participles: gone and been. He’s gone to Paris (He’s in Paris now)

He’s been to Paris. (He went to Paris and returned)

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Perfect TensesPresent Perfect with for, since.

We use the present perfect + for/since to talk about an action or state that started in the past and continues in the present.

I’ve lived here for six years.

We haven’t seen Paul snce Friday.

We use for + period of time to say how long something has continued:

For an hour

For two days

For a year

We use since + point in time to say when something began:

since nine o’clock

since Monday

since 2003

since I saw her.

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