PRESENT PERFECT

a) For unfinished actions

For 2
years.

I have come to the CBA

PAS NOW FUTURE

T Its
TheMARKERS
TIME Its possible
action happening
SINCE FOR that it
continues Durative verbs:

A point A period COME; KNOW; WORK; LIVE

in time of time
Here the action is not
2009 2 years finished. It still happens
now.

We know when it started.

 PRESENT PERFECT
b) For finished actions

She has bought a

car.

PAS
? ?
When? NOW
FUTURE
T
The action ? It affects my Will probably
happened in present. affect in the
the past. future.
Punctual verb:

BUY; PLAY; GO; ARRIVE

Time markers
Already, yet, never,
just, ever, before, still, Here, when the action

recently, lately started is not important.

What is important here is

that it still affects.