PRESENT PERFECT

What is the presente perfect tense?

We use the present perfect to describe an event
or personal experience in the past without a
specific time.
-to talk about things that have happened up to
now

I have lived here for ten years

 This tense is not focused on the really specific
time so we do not use expressions like: 1990,
yesterday, last year. We use just words that
expresses non-exact time.
JUST
EVER
NEVER
ALREADY
YET /?/
NOT YET
 SINCE/when/ FOR /a length of time/
 -1995, -five years,
 -last month, - two months,
 -Monday, - a week,
 -ten o’clock - an hour,
 - three days…
 Form of the verb
 We have to use the form called “Past Participle”.
 Verbs are divided into two groups: regular and
irregular.
 Regulars end by a “ED”
 Irregulars do not have a rule to follow.
 Regular verbs

Base form Past simple Past participle

Ask Asked Asked
Close Closed Closed
Cook Cooked Cooked
Call Called Called
 Irregular verbs

Base form Past simple Past participle

Take Took Taken
Write Wrote Written
Stand Stood Stood
Go Went Gone