Step 1: The Two Main Uses. Step 2: Finished Past Actions. Step 3: Actions That Started In The Past And Continue To The Present. Step 4: Present Perfect Tense Structure. Step 5: Ask And Answer Using The Present Perfect. Step 6: Review With A Quiz. Related Resources.
The present perfect tense is not used with adverbs of past time. Examples are: yesterday, last week, last year etc. Cases where the present perfect tense cannot be used. We do not use the present perfect tense when we say when something happens. In such cases, we use the simple past tense. I saw Rani yesterday. (NOT I have seen Rani yesterday.)
Present perfect aspect โ tips and activities. Tips and ideas from Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on teaching the present perfect aspect. When teaching the present perfect, or explaining the present perfect, it is often easiest to focus on the use of the present perfect rather than the meaning. This is especially true for the first time
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watching. We. were. laughing. A verb phrase with be and โ ing expresses continuous aspect. A verb with am / is / are expresses present continuous and a verb with was / were expresses past continuous. the auxiliary verb have and a main verb in the past participle form: Subject.Haber translates as to be when expressing the existence of a noun. This is pretty simple in the present tense, but it can get a little trickier in the past when deciding between the preterite and imperfect. To state the existence of a noun in the present tense, we use hay, which translates as there is / there are.
One of them is to express situations which started in the past and continue into the present. Here are some examples: Meaning. We may use the Present Perfect to talk about actions or events that started in the past but continue to the present or to describe something we have done several times in the past and continue to do.
We use have/has been when someone has gone to a place and returned: A: Where have you been? B: I've just been out to the supermarket. A: Have you ever been to San Francisco? B: No, but I've been to Los Angeles. But when someone has not returned, we use have/has gone: A: Where's Maria? I haven't seen her for weeks. B: She's gone to Paris for a week.We use the present perfect continuous tense to talk about: actions and states that began in the past and are still continuing at the time of speaking. I have been holding this ladder for ages.
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