This document summarizes and provides examples of the past simple tense, present perfect tense, present perfect continuous tense, and past perfect tense in English. It explains that the past simple tense is used for finished actions in the past, while the present perfect tense is used for unfinished actions that started in the past and continue to the present. It provides examples of each tense and how to use the past perfect tense to describe an action that occurred before another past action. The document concludes with noting the pattern for the past perfect tense and an exercise for students to practice.

1. Past Simple vs. Present
Perfect Tense
Willy Juanggo
Pribadi Bilingual Boarding School
Bandung

2. Time
Finished Unfinished
Past Simple Present Perfect
I worked hard I have worked hard
- yesterday
- last week
- last month
- this week
- this year
- since 6 a.m.

3. Johnanswered all our questions.
Today John has answered all our questions today.
Last week John answered all our questions last week.

4. for and since
Hamzah owns this house. He bought it in January.
Hamzah has owned this house since January.
Hilham belongs to the club. He joined it two weeks ago
Hilham has belonged to the club for two weeks

5. How about the followings?

6. Present Perfect Continuous
Tense

7. Learn this!

10. Past Perfect Tense

11. 2.Heansweredallthequestionscorrectly.(onMonday)
1. Hilham studied very hard. (on Sunday )
3. Hilham answered all the questions correctly because
he had studied very hard.
Past simple
Past Perfect (had + V3)
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12. 2.I wasverytiredlastnight.
1. I played badminton all afternoon yesterday.
3. I was very tired last night because I had played badminton
all afternoon yesterday.
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Note:
1. Past Perfect Tense Pattern
(+) Subject + had + Verb in past participle form (V3)
(-) Subject + had not + Verb in past participle form (V3)
2. We used Past Perfect Tense to describe an action that happened
before another one in the past.

13. Exercise

14. Source
• English Sentence Structure by Robert Krohn