The Present Perfect is used to denote a link between the present and the past. The time of the action is before now but not specified, and we are often more interested in the result than in the action itself.
We use the Present Perfect to talk about actions or events in the past that still have an effect on the present moment. These actions have started in the past but continue up to the present moment.
It is important to note that the completion of these actions actually puts a focus on the present or on the result of the action.
Consider the example:
Here, there is a connection between the past and the present. We can use the Present Perfect to talk about the things Tom has / hasn’t seen / done:
Let’s revise how Present Perfect is formed.
[subject] + have/has + Past Participle
[subject] + haven’t/hasn’t + Past Participle
Questions
have/has + [subject] + Past Participle
We often use ‘yet’ with negative and question forms of the Present Perfect. It means something like ‘until now’. It usually comes at the end of the sentence.
We don’t use ‘yet’ with positive statements:
We can use ‘just’ to talk about something that happened a short time ago:
‘Just’ comes between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.
We can use ‘already’ to emphasize that the event or action is recent and happened before now:
Here’s a video about using ‘yet’, ‘just’ and ‘already’ in Present Perfect:
More irregular past participles:
take → taken |
do → done |
make → made |
eat → eaten |
see → seen |
find → found |
speak → spoken |
come → come |
Find more irregular verbs here:
See also:
Present Perfect: Negative & Questions
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