Present perfect.

Present Perfect

Present perfect

• We use the present perfect to talk about experiences

• My parents have been to Argentina many times

• We use the present perfect to talk about something which started in the past and continues now

• We have lived in this house for 5 years.

• We use the present perfect to talk about something which happened in the past but we don't say when.

• I have seen that movie before.

Present perfect

• We form the present perfect with the verb HAVE/HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE

• If it's a negative sentence, we use HAVEN'T / HASN'T + PAST PARTICIPLE

• If it's a question we flip the order of the sentences using HAVE YOU / HAS SHE-HE + PAST PARTICIPLE

Let's check your knowledge now

Multiple Choice

For the present perfect we use these auxiliary verbs

• Have/Had

• Have/Han

• Have/Hass

• Have/Has

Multiple Choice

Which question is correct?

• Have you seen my keys?

• Has you seen my keys?

• You have seen my keys?

• Did you have seen my keys?

To use these tense it is important to remember that you have to use the past participle form of the verbs, let's see how well you know regular and irregular verbs.

Fill in the Blanks

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Select

I (be/here) for an hour.

• have been

• have be

• has been

• have bean

Multiple Select

Choose ALL of the correct answers.

I have been married since _____.

• one year

• 2019

• six months

• May

• last week

Multiple Select

Choose ALL of the correct answers:

We have had this car for ______.

• 10 months

• 10 months ago

• 2020

• 10 years

• January