This document discusses the usage of four English verb tenses: the present perfect, past perfect, present perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous. For each tense, it provides the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms using the verbs "buy", "have", and "speak" as examples. It explains that the present perfect is used for past actions connected to the present, the past perfect establishes order between past actions, the present perfect continuous expresses ongoing actions reaching the present, and the future perfect continuous expresses how long an action will have lasted at a future point.
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2. The present perfect in English is a tense
used to refer to actions that happen in the
recent past .
Affirmative: S + HAVE/HAS + V (in past
participle) + C
Negative: S + HAVE/HAS + NOT + V (in past
participle) + C
I have bought a new dress.
I have not bought a new dress.
Interrogative:
YES/NO: HAS/HAS + S + Vpp + C? Have I bought a new dress?
WH: WH + HAVE/HAS + S + Vpp+ C? Why have I bought a new dress?
3. The Past Perfect in English is a tense used
to refer to an action that took place earlier
in another action, although both have
happened in the past by establishing an
order among them.
Affirmative: S + HAD + Vpp +
C
I had bought a new car.
Negative: S + HAD+ NOT + Vpp + C I had not bought a new car
Interrogative:
YES/NO: HAD + S + Vpp+ C? Had I bought a new car?
WH: WH + HAD + S + Vpp+ C? Why had I a new car?
4. The present perfect progressive or present
perfect continuous is used to express an
action that reaches the present, or nearly
so, and continues to have repercussions in
the present.
Affirmative: S + HAVE/HAS + BEEN + V ing
+ C
I have been speaking
Negative: S + HAVE/HAVE + NOT + BEEN
+ V ing + C
I have not been speaking
Interrogative:
YES/NO: HAVE/HAS + S + BEEN + V ing + C? Have I been speaking?
WH: WH + HAVE/HAS + BEEN+ V ing + C? Why have I been speaking?
5. The future perfect continuous is used to
express how long have lasted an action at
a particular point in the future.
Affirmative: S + WILL+ HAVE + BEEN +
V ing + C
You will have been working
Negative: S + WILL + NOT + HAVE +
BEEN + V ing + C
You will not have been working
Interrogative:
YES/NO: WILL + S + HAVE + BEEN + V
ing + C?
Will you have been working?
WH: WH + WILL + S + HAVE + BEEN
+ V ing + C?
Why will you have been working?