Use of Present Perfect

• We can use the present perfect to talk about experiences in our life.

• We often use ‘never’ for negatives and ‘ever’ in questions.

• e.g. My brother has met his favourite singer.

• I have never seen an alien!

• Have you ever climbed the Eiffel Tower?

  
  

This tense expresses actions of duration that occurred in the past (before now) but are of unspecified time

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Positive and negative forms of Present Perfect To form the Present Perfect use:

[Subject] + has/have + Past Participle of verb

e.g. Tom has been to London.

What means Past Participle?

To form Past Simple we add -ed at the end of regular verbs. e.g.: play - played; jump - jumped, cry - cried, etc.

For irregular verbs, we have special form.

Past Participle

Oh! Look! There is the third column.

So, to for the Past Participle of regular verbs, we have to add -ed at the end of the word. e.g.: play - played, stay - stayed, jump - jumped.

But irregular verbs have a special form, which is indicated in the third column.

Positive

• subject + has / have + Present Perfect

• I have played

• She has made

• They have jumped

Negative

• subject + have / has + not + Past Participle

• She has not tried

• I have not played

• She hasn't stayed

• They haven't started

Question form

• Have / Has + subject + Present Perfect

• Have you ever played?

• Has he ever visited?

• Have they ever tried?

• Has she ever made?