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y Present perfect simple y Present perfect continous y Past Perfect y Past Perfect continous y First conditional y Second conditional y Third conditional
Present Perfect
FORM y Subject + has/have + verb past participle+ complement. Examples: y You have seen that movie many times. y Have you seen that movie many times? y You have not seen that movie many times.
Present Perfect
happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important.You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions Example y People have not traveled to Mars.
started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect Continuous. Examples: y They have been talking for the last hour.
Recently, Lately
y You can also use the Present Perfect Continuous WITHOUT
a duration such as "for two weeks." Without the duration, the tense has a more general meaning of "lately." We often use the words "lately" or "recently" to emphasize this meaning. Examples: y Recently, I have been feeling really tired.
Past Perfect
y FORM y [had + past participle] y Examples: y You had studied English before you moved to New York. y Had you studied English before you moved to New York? y You had not studied English before you moved to New
York.
before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past. Example: y I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai.
uses of Mixed Verbs, we use the Past Perfect to show that something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past. Examples: y They felt bad about selling the house because they had owned it for more than forty years.
started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. "For five minutes" and "for two weeks" are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous. Notice that this is related to the Present Perfect Continuous; however, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before something else in the past. y Examples: y They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived.
the past is a good way to show cause and effect. Examples: y Jason was tired because he had been jogging.
First conditional
y The first conditional predicts future result dependent on
a future condition. FORM y If+ subject+ verb in present, subject +will/wont+ verb infinitive+ complement
y Example y If Maria goes to the party, then I wont go
Second conditional
y We use the second conditional to talk about a future
result or action that is unlikely because the condition in the if clause will probably not be fulfilled. FORM y If + subject+ verb in past, subject+ would/wouldnt + verb infinitive y Example y If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.
Third conditional
y To talk about actions or situations in the past that are contrary to
knows facts, when we imagine consequenses of actions that in reality didnt happen. FORM y If + subject+past perfect, subject+ would/wouldnt +have + past participle + complement. Example. y If Tara had been free yesterday, I would have invited her. Sometimes, we use should have, could have, might have instead of would have.