PRESENT PERFECT • You can use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. • You can use Present perfect with 1. Experience 2. Change Over Time 3. An Uncompleted Action You Are Expecting 4. Time Expressions with Present Perfect
Present Perfect FORM has/have + past participle
Examples: • • People have traveled to the Moon. Tom has visited France. I have been to France. I think I have seen that movie before.
Time Expressions with Present Perfect • • in the last year , month , week so far this week , year , month Just Already Still Never – ever Yet
Examples • Bill has still not arrived. • The rain hasn't stopped yet. • Have you ever met him? I have never visited Italy. • I have already eaten the lunch.
Questions • Have- has + subject + past perfect Examples Have you ever slept in a hotel? Has he eaten the pizza? Have you read the book yet?
Negative form • Subject + have-has + not + past participle Examples • I have not( haven’t) been there. • The students haven’t studied the lesson. • Mark has not (hasn’t) came home. • Dona and Mark haven’t found the letter.
Put the present perfect form • I (see, never) that movie. • I (have, not) this much fun since I was young. • I (visit, never) Africa. • Times (change). • How long (be) in Canada?