The document discusses the present perfect tense in Spanish. It notes that the present perfect tense is used to talk about actions that happened at an unspecified time before now. It explains that in Spanish, the present perfect is formed by using the present tense of the auxiliary verb "haber" along with the past participle. It provides examples of sentences in the present perfect tense and notes that you cannot use specific time expressions like yesterday or last week with the present perfect.

1. PRESENT PERFECT
UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA
CARRERA INGLES
NOMBRE SONIA BARAJA

2. PRESENT PERFECT
*We use the Present Perfect to say that an action
happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact
time is not important
• In Spanish, the present perfect tense is formed by using
the present tense of the auxiliary verb "haber" with the
past participle. Haber is conjugated as follows:
• he
has
ha
hemos
habéis
han

3. THE ESTRUCTUR
*SENTENCES
SUBJECT+HAVE+ VERV IN PAST
PARTICIPLE+COMPLEMENT
*QUESTION
HAVE+SUBJECT+VERB IN PRESENT
PERFECT+COMPLEMENTE+?

4. RULES
*You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with
specific time expressions such as:
yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was
a child, when I lived in Japan, at that
moment, that day, one day, etc.

5. EXAMPLES
• I have seen that movie twenty times.
• I think I have met him once before.
• There have been many earthquakes in California.
• People have traveled to the Moon.
• People have not traveled to Mars.
• Have you read the book yet?
• Nobody has ever climbed that mountain.
• A: Has there ever been a war in the United
States?
B: Yes, there has been a war in the United States.