Present Perfect Tense

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Present Perfect Tense

• FORM S HAS/HAVE V3/Ved
• SIGN The Present Perfect tense usually
  gets together with just, recently, for, several
  times, ever, never, already,
• USES The Present Perfect tense is used
• - For recent actions when the time is not
  mentioned.
• EX I have read the instructions but I dont
  understand them.

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• - With just for a recently completed action.
• EX He has just gone out.
• - For recent actions whose results are still in
  the present.
• EX Tom has had a bad accident.
• - For an action occurring in an incomplete
  period. The incomplete period may be indicated by
  today/this morning/this week/this month,
• EX Tom has rung up three times this morning.

3

• - For an action beginning in the past and
  continuing up to the present.
• EX I have learned English for over five years.
• - For an action finishing at the time of
  speaking.
• EX Hi Tom! I havent seen you for ages.

4

• - With FOR and SINCE.
• For is used with a period of time.
  Since is used for a point in time.
• EX1 We have lived in London for ten years.
• EX2 Weve been friends since schooldays.
• - In Since Clause.
• EX Ive worked here since I left school.

5

• - In the patterns as follows
• Pattern 1
• It is period of time Since Simple Past /
  Present Perfect
• EX1 It is three years since I last saw Tom.
• (I saw Tom three years ago)
• EX2 It is three years since I have seen Tom.
• (I havent seen Tom for three years)

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• - Pattern 2
• S is superlative/ordinal number/only Noun
  (that) Present Perfect
• EX1 It is the best wine I have ever drunk.
• EX2 This is the first time I have been here.
• EX3 This is the only book I have written.