English Present Perfect

1. All about the...
PRESENT PERFECT
What is perfect?
Perfect tenses describe not one time, but
two.
We use the perfect to show how these two
times are connected.
HOW ?!

2. For example:
He was happy last week, because I had remembered his birthday.
The use of the perfect in the sentence connects two different times in
the past.
I remembered his birthday.
&
He was happy.

3. is even easier,
you only
that it is
.

4. I have forgotten my wallet
I forgot my wallet yesterday
Notice:
The first example does not have a time indicator, so we
know that the time indicator is 'now'. The speaker does not
have his wallet with him now.
The second example tells us what happened yesterday,
but it gives us no information about what the situation is now.
So the important thing to remember about the
present perfect is that it might have happened in the
past, but it is true or relevant now.