Present Perfect

Miss Danny 
• Have you ever had an awful nightmare?
• Have you listened to a song many times
and you still like it?
• Has anyone ever told you that you are a
trustworthy person?

Personal questions
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Present perfect

Rules, structures, and examples

CONCEPTS
The present perfect tense
refers to an action or state
that:
1. occurred at an indefinite
time in the past.
o we have talked before
2. began in the past and
continued to the present
time
o He has grown impatient
over the last hour.
Subject + have / has + P.V
I have drunk enough water
She has read the book

Remember: have- I, YOU, WE, THEY

has- SHE, HE, IT

Affirmative structure
Subject + haven’t / hasn’t + P.V
(have/has not)

Remember: haven’t- I, YOU, WE, THEY

hasn’t- SHE, HE, IT

Negative structure
Have/has + Subject + (ever, already) + P.V+ Complement + ?

Remember: have- I, YOU, WE, THEY

has- SHE, HE, IT

Interrogative structure
 ● Expresses that an action
occurred before we

The Use of expected.

● “YA”
Already ● I have already done my
homework
Affirmative and
Interrogative present ● She has already visited
perfect simple Mexico
sentences
● Have you already watched
the movie?
 ● Expresses that an action hasn’t
The use of occurred when it is supposed
to.
Yet ● “AÚN or TODAVÍA”

Negative and ● I haven’t sent my project yet.

interrogative present ● It has not worked yet.
perfect simple ● Has it stopped raining yet?
sentences.
 ● Expresses that an action
has happened very recently.
The use of ● “JUSTO”
Just ● I am not hungry, I have just
had dinner.
Affirmative and negative
present perfect simple ● She has just arrived.
sentences.
● We have just left school.
Examples:

I have been in She has lived here

Mexico twice. since she was a
child.

I have already You have drunk

watched his movie. coffe.
EXAMPLES

He hasn’t done his We haven’t visited

homework yet. Puebla.

They haven’t taken this It hasn’t worked in the

course yet. last three days.
Examples

Have you ever

Have they been here
watched a horror
before?
movie?

Has she already sent Has he eaten all his

her homework? vegetables?