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 The present perfect is used to describe something that happened in

the past, but the exact time it happened is not important.


 Subject + Have/has + past participle + complement.

 For something that started in the past and continues in the present:
 They’ve been married for nearly fifty years.
 She has lived in Liverpool all her life.

 Or something we have done several times in


the past and continue to do:
 He has written three books and he is working on another one.
 I’ve been watching that programme every week.
 ‘Just’ is usually used only with the present perfect tense and it means
‘a short time ago’.
 In the present perfect, ‘just’ comes between the auxiliary verb
(‘have’) and the past participle.
 I’ve just seen Susan coming out of the cinema.
 Mike’s just called.
 Have you just taken my pen?
 ‘Yet’ is used to talk about something which is expected to happen. It
means ‘at any time up to now’. It is used in questions and negatives.
 ‘Yet’ usually comes at the end of the sentence.
 Have you finished your homework yet?
 I haven’t finished it yet. I will do it after dinner.
 Subject + have/has + JUST + past participle + complent.

 Subject + haven’t/hasn’t + past participle + complement +


YET.

 Have/has + subject + past participle + complement + YET


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