This document outlines the structure and uses of the present perfect tense in English. It provides the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the present perfect simple structure using common verbs like "eat", "play", "study", and "travel". It then discusses time adverbials that can be used with the present perfect such as "just", "already", "never", "for", and "since". Finally, it contrasts the uses of the present perfect, which relates a past action to the present, versus the past simple tense which is used for actions fully contained in the past.
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1. A) PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE STRUCTURE
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE QUESTIONS
I HAVE EATEN
YOU HAVE PLAYED
HE HAS STUDIED
SHE HAS BEEN
IT HAS STARTED
WE HAVE VISITED
YOU HAVE MADE
THEY HAVE TRAVELLED
I HAVEN¡¯T EATEN
YOU HAVEN¡¯T PLAYED
HE HASN¡¯T STUDIED
SHE HASN¡¯T BEEN
IT HASN¡¯T STARTED
WE HAVEN¡¯T VISITED
YOU HAVEN¡¯T MADE
THEY HAVEN¡¯T TRAVELLED
HAVE I EATEN?
HAVE YOU PLAYED?
HAS HE STUDIED?
HAS SHE BEEN?
HAS IT STARTED?
HAVE WE VISITED?
HAVE YOU MADE?
HAVE THEY TRAVELLED?
B) TIME ADVERBIALS with the PRESENT PERFECT
JUST /ALREADY /NEVER
-She has never seen the snow
-We have already finished the exercise(Action finished sometime in the past)
-We have justfinished the exercise(A shorttime ago)
FOR / SINCE
-I have studied for 3 hours ( FOR = Period of time, amount)
-I have studied since3 PM ( SINCE= Point in time)
EVER
-Have you ever seen the northern lights? ( For questions)
C) USES OF THE PRESENT PERFECT
An action in the pastrelated to the present. We see the results.
( Look at your Grammar Bank pg 100 and student¡¯s book pg 28)
D) THE PAST SIMPLE:
We usethe PastSimplefor things in the pastthat began and
ended in the past.
We often indicatethe time the action happened with Time
expressions : Yesterday, Last year, a month ago¡