The present perfect tense refers to an action that started in the past but is finished now. Specifically it can describe a situation that started in the past and is still continuing to this day, an action where the time is not important, a repeated action in an unspecified period of time and an action that isn\u2019t finished yet. It is formed with the auxiliary verb \u201chave\u201d in the corresponding form for the subject of the sentence followed by the participle of the main verb.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at some examples:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n To ask questions in present perfect tense, you will need to use the following formula: Interrogative + subject + past participle. For example: Has she arrived?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can ask questions with the present perfect tense by using the following words for the relevant pronouns:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can add \u201cnot\u201d after \u201chas\u201d or \u201chave\u201d. For example: Has he not walked here? Have they not attended the meeting?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can abbreviate \u201chas not\u201d to \u201chasn\u2019t\u201d and \u201chave not\u201d to \u201chaven\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Place the appropriate present perfect word in the gaps and take note that some of these sentences will need to use \u201cnot\u201d to make sense: sing, work, lead, prepare, read, traveled, swim, play, be, steal, cough, clean.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The present perfect tense refers to an action that started in the past but is finished now. Specifically it can describe a situation that started in the past and is still continuing to this day, an action where the time is not important, a repeated action in an unspecified period of time and an action … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verb-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n First person<\/td>\n Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I have lived in London for twenty years.<\/td>\n These situations started in the past and are still continuing to this day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n He has been in the USA since 1999.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I have finished my homework.<\/td>\n These are situations where the time is unimportant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Mark has washed his clothes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I have been to Thailand three times.<\/td>\n These are repeated actions in an unspecified amount of time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n We have cooked at home every day of the week.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n It has snowed a lot this winter.<\/td>\n These are actions which have not finished yet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I have studied history all my life.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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