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Present Perfect and Continuous
Present Perfect and Continuous
Past Present
I arrived in Seattle in It is 2009.
2000.
this morning
yesterday
To form the present perfect:
HAVE/HAS + PAST
PARTICIPLE
Statement Question
Negative
I I
You have I You
(‘ve) have not Hav
We gone You e We gone?
(haven’t)
They We gone The
She has They y
He (‘s) She She
has not
It gone He (hasn’t) Has He gone?
It gone it
Questions
They have studied English since 2000.
Have they studied English since 2000?
Short Answer:
Yes, they have.
No, they haven’t (=have not).
She has lived in Seattle since last year.
Already, yet and still: It can be placed before the main verb (past participle) or at the
end of the sentence.
Present Perfect Tense
The autumn has
already arrived
How do you
know?
Present Perfect Tense
FORM: have / has + past participle
Adverbs For, since, already, ever, never, all day, for 4 years, since
yet, still, etc. 1993, how long?, the
frequently whole week, etc.
used
Example I have written five letters. I have been playing football
since 3 o’clock.
We can use both the present perfect simple and the present perfect
continuous to describe an activity that started in the past and
continues up to the present and possibly into the future.
Ex: They have been studying English for three years.
They’ve studied English for three years.
We can use the present perfect simple and the present perfect
continuous with lately and recently.
Ex: I’ve been working hard lately.
I’ve done a lot of work lately.