Today we’ll learn about one of the tenses of English, Our lesson today revolves around the present perfect tense.
And thought this tense is easy, there are a lot of people who think its mix up in determining this tense, so together we will learn about this tense through this article, where we will explain its uses as we will learn about its drafting methods and we will view the words on it with many examples.
What do you know about the present perfect tense?
It’s always used as a link between the past and the present, in addition to many uses for example:
- It used to refer to an event or act that occurred before now, but at an un specified time, it’s usually used when we focusing on the result of the act more than the details of the act occurring.
- It’s also used to describe an act or saying that started to happen in the past and is still going on right now, that is, it’s not over yet.
- It also expresses an act done in a period of time that has not expired until the present time.
- It also used to talk about an act repeated in a period of time from the past and the present.
- It also expresses a newly completed act, that is, it occurred in the recent past, and here we use the word (Just) For example:
Now that we know the multiple uses of the present perfect tense, we will know how to formulate it in different cases.
How the present perfect tense is formulated?
| The case |
Formulating |
Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Affirmation |
Subject+ has(singular )∕ have(plural ) + past participle |
Hana has helped her mom to do the dishes. |
| Negative |
Subject + has∕ have + not + past participle |
They haven’t finished the project yet. |
| Question |
Have ∕has + subject + past participle? |
Have you traveled to Ireland? |
There are commonly used words in the present perfect tense, but this doesn’t prevent them from being used with other tenses and these words are (Since- for-already-never-ever- just-yet) for examples:
- My uncle has lived in Italy since the beginning of this year.
- I has moved to Dubai for ten months.
- My friends haven’t visited me yet.
And so we’re done explaining the present perfect tense in all its details, but there’s still the most important part of the lesson, and that’s how we differentiate between the present perfect tense and the past simple tense.
Learn the difference between the present perfect tense and the past simple tense
Extreme simplicity the present perfect use when the time of occurrence is not specified or it’s not important to know or mention it such as:
- My grandparents have migrated to Turkey.
The simple past is different, because we use it when the situation requires knowing all the details about the occurrence of the event, whether it’s time or place such as:
- My grandparents migrated to Turkey 15 years ago.
And so we must have finished today’s lesson, which was about the present perfect tense.
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