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 •1_ Good evening everyone, I am Edgar Ancajima Vilcherrez and I will talk to you about the present perfect.

1_ GOOD EVENING EVERYONE I'M EDGAR ANCAJIMA VILCHERREZ AND I'LL TALK TO YOU ABOUT
 2_ The present perfect, also known as present perfect simple or present perfect in Spanish, is one of the present tenses in English. Its correct
THE PRESENT PERFECT.
use is necessary to express experiences or memories that occurred a long time ago, but of which we still remember or have importance today.
Thanks to this, its use is very common and it is important to know it perfectly .
 3_ The present perfect has three structures: affirmative, negative and interrogative, which are ordered in the way you can see in the tables
below, and in which you can also find different sentences with their translation into Spanish.
 4_ The objective of this verb tense is to link the past with the present. However, the focus falls on the result, that is, what has happened or
what has not happened. FIVE main functions can be listed:
1) The action began in the past and continues in the present. For example:
• I have lived in Veracruz since 1990
2) The time for carrying out the action has not ended. For example:
• They have gone to swim twice a week
3) The action is constantly repeated in an indeterminate time between the past and the present
• She has visited that museum several times
4) The action concluded recently. For this use use just.
• He has just finished his homework
5) The time at which the action was performed is not relevant.
• We haven't watched Titanic
5_ Now that I have finished explaining the topic of the present perfect, I will leave you some problems to select some companions so you can
solve them.

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