The Past perfect and Present perfect
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The Past Perfect tense expresses that one past action occurred before another past action or before a specific time in the past. It is formed using had + past participle. The Present Perfect tense indicates an action happened at some unspecified time before the present. It is used to talk about experiences or completed actions without specifying times. It is formed using have/has + past participle.
The Past perfect and Present perfect
- 2. Past Perfect Tense ï‚— The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
- 3. Structure
- 4. Present Perfect Tense ï‚— We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important.
- 5. Structure