LeArN TENSE with FuN- Lecture 2

PRESENT PERFECT

Verb form – Subject + have/has +V3

Adverbs used here – already, just, yet, just now, recently etcetera.

The Present Perfect tense is a combination of both present tense and perfect form which is used to express a past event that has present sequence/ outcome of actions.

–> Present Perfect is used for a complete activity extending from some period of time in the past upto the present.

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Examples :-

• There have been two murder cases in our locality during this month.
• Sunil has visited the USA.
• I have been to Switzerland.

–> For an activity which is already completed in the past, either recent or remote or we can say to be found out from the signs or evidences present.

Examples :-

• Somebody has broken the glass frame.
• Some one has turned the pages of the books on the table.

–> Can also be used to describe an uprising result in the present.

Examples:-

• I have had my dinner.

Note: I don’t need it now.

• Simran has told me a secret.

Note: She need not tell it again.

–> To express what has taken place or what has been the matter with in the speaker’s experience.

Examples :-

• We have seen many young men ruined by their evil environment.
• My father has seen a lot of things throughout his life.

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LeArN TENSE with FuN- Lecture 1

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE:

Verb form – Subject + have/has + been + ING

Adverbs used – Always, never, only, still etcetera.

This tense defines a continuous action that has been finished at some point of time previously in the past or was inducted in the past which continues to happen.

Note: The tense is used for the action started in the past and still going on in the present.

• Use of since is done to describe the point of time.
• Use of for is done to initiate the period of time.

[For two days, since Friday etcetera are Ll durations which are used in present perfect progressive]

Examples :-

• Sheetal has been teaching at the university since December.
• We have been drooling here for over two hours waiting for the food.
• They have been waiting for us for the last one hour.

–> Secondly without actually inducing a particular duration the tense has a general study with the word lately. When we don’t describe a particular time or duration, we use lately or recently which emphasizes on an approximate time.

Example :-

• Have you been studying lately?
• Ananya has not been going through her grammar lessons.

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