Present perfect

When do you use the present perfect?

• If something happened in the past and is connected with the present

• If you want to explain something that is happening now

I have been to several European countries in a short period of time

• Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

• Actions (single action or repeated actions) which happened at some unknown time in the past

• Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

I have lost the love of my life and that is why I can't seem to find happiness anymore

• happened in the past but is important in the present

• something that started in the past and continues in the present

• talking about our experience up to the present

They have been to the French mountains two times

• Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

• Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

• Actions (single action or repeated actions) which happened at some unknown time in the past

He has played the piano for twenty years

• Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

• Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

• Actions (single action or repeated actions) which happened at some unknown time in the past

He has written love letters to the married woman for two decades

• Actions (single action or repeated actions) which happened at some unknown time in the past

• Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

• Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

I have banished the dictators and the people live in a peaceful democracy

• Actions (single action or repeated actions) which happened at some unknown time in the past

• Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

• Actions which started in the past and are still continuing