The Present Perfect Tense

1. PRESENT
PERFECT
TENSE
English

2. USE
We use the present perfect to describe an event or personal
experience in the past without a specific time.
-to talk about things that have happened up to now
Indicators for the Present Perfect Tense:
 JUST
 EVER
 NEVER
 ALREADY
 YET /?/
 NOT YET

3. Some other Examples…
• SINCE/when/ FOR /a length of time/
• -1995, -five
years,
• -last month, - two months,
• -Monday, - a week,
• -ten o’clock - an hour,
•
-three days…

4. AFFIRMATIVE
•We form the affirmative form with
the helping verb have/has+past
participle (V3).
Example:
We have experienced how to create
sentences.
She has cancelled her Netflix
subscription.

5.  HAVE/HAS + Past
Participle
• I have helped
• I have gone
• You have helped
• You have gone
• He has gone
• She has helped
• She has gone
• It has helped
• I has gone
• We have helped
• We have gone
• You have helped
• You have gone
• They have helped
• They have gone

6. INTERROGATIVE
• We form questions with regular and
irregular verbs in the present perfect
with have/has+noun/pronoun + past
participle (V3).
Example
Have you ever been to Esparza?
Has Carmelita ever won the national
championship?
Have they completed last assignment?

7. HAVE/HAS  Past
Participle ?
• Have I
helped?
• Have I gone?
• Have we
helped?
• Have we gone?
• Have you
helped?
• Have you gone?
• Have you
helped?
• Have you gone?
• Has he
helped?
• Has he gone?
• Have they
helped?
• Have they gone?

8. NEGATIVE
• We form the negative form of regular and irregular
verbs in the present perfect with have/has
+not+past participle (V3).
• Remember! We use contractions for when we speak and
for writing.
Examples:
I have not completed my last assignment. (haven’t)
You have not determined the cause of action.
(haven’t)
She has not clarified the last metrics. (hasn’t)