{"id":1341,"date":"2016-07-02T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:02:44","slug":"using-the-present-perfect-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-the-present-perfect-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the present perfect tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The present perfect tense is used<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) to talk about actions or situations completed in the immediate past<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>has just gone<\/strong> out.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>have just received<\/strong> the parcel.<\/li>\n<li>The clock <strong>has just struck<\/strong> nine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) to express past actions whose time is not given and not definite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Have you read<\/strong> \u2018Alice in Wonderland\u2019?<\/li>\n<li>He<strong> has been<\/strong> to Australia many times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have you ever seen<\/strong> a ghost?<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>have watched<\/strong> that movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the sentences given above, we are talking about past actions but we don\u2019t mention their time.<\/p>\n<p>3) to talk about past events whose effect is still felt in the present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>have broken<\/strong> my leg. (So I can\u2019t walk now.)<\/li>\n<li>The cat <strong>has drunk<\/strong> all the milk. (So there is nothing left for the baby.)<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>have finished<\/strong> my work. (So I am free now.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4) to talk about an action that started in the past and has continued up to the moment of speaking<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>have lived<\/strong> in this city for fifteen years. (= I am still living in this city.)<\/li>\n<li>We <strong>have known<\/strong> each other since our school days.<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>has been<\/strong> absent for two days.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>haven\u2019t seen<\/strong> her for several months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Adverbs used with the present perfect tense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The present perfect tense is commonly used with the following adverbs: <em>just, often, never, ever, so far, till now, yet, already, since, for<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>has just gone<\/strong> out.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>have never been<\/strong> to a concert.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>have written<\/strong> six letters so far.<\/li>\n<li>We <strong>haven\u2019t received<\/strong> any information till now.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>haven\u2019t started<\/strong> work yet.<\/li>\n<li>He<strong> has already left.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The present perfect tense cannot be used with adverbs of past time. That means it cannot be used with expressions like<em> yesterday, last year, last week or last month. Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q0-w6Et8_is\">Youtube video<\/a> to learn the difference between simple past and present perfect. You can also find a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mEx31T2wKvM\">Malayalam version of the same video here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present perfect tense is used 1) to talk about actions or situations completed in the immediate past He has just gone out. I have just received the parcel. The clock has just struck&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-present-perfect-tense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74798,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/74798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}