Present Perfect Tense

Present Perfect Tense

The present perfect tense refers to an action or state that either occurred at an indefinite time in the past 

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• This tense is formed by have/has + the past participle.

• The first element is have or has, depending on the subject the verb is conjugated with.

• The second element is the past participle of the verb, which is usually formed by adding -ed or -d to the verb’s root (e.g., walked, cleaned, typed, perambulated, jumped, laughed) 

• Few verbs that have irregular past participles are: done, said, gone, known, won, thought, felt, eaten.

Grammatical

Structure

Past participle of regular and irregular verbs

Time expressions

Some examples