hi bob the canadian here welcome to this
english lesson where i'm going to help
you learn the present perfect tense hey
have you started yet
yes i've started sorry no problem
the present perfect tense is used when
you want to talk about an action where
the time
isn't important or the time isn't
specified
or the action hasn't really finished
happening we use it in sentences like
this
i have worked hard today i have learned
a lot of new english vocabulary
so stick around in this lesson i'll show
you how to form the present perfect
tense i'll show you how to conjugate it
and we'll talk about when to use the
present perfect tense
we'll also look at how to form the
negative and of course
how to form questions using this test
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let's start by talking about how to
conjugate the present perfect tense
you do this by taking your subjects i
you he
she we and they and you conjugate the
verb to
have as your helper verb so i have you
have
he she has we have and they have
then you take your verb and you put it
into the past participle
i'm going to use the verb to call
because it's regular
but you will need to learn a lot of
irregular verbs as well
you would then have this i have called
you have called
he has called she has called we have
called
or they have called that's how you
conjugate the present perfect tense
as you know in english we're always in a
hurry to say things as quickly as
possible
so we usually use contractions so we
don't often say
i have called instead we would say
things like this
i've called you've called he's called
she's called
we've called and they've called i don't
know why but we're always in a hurry and
we like to
mush our words together so that we can
say them quickly we often
use contractions let's talk about when
you should use the present perfect tense
there are about five situations when you
should use this verb tense
the first is when the time of the action
is not over so if i say something like
this
i have worked hard today i'm still
working hard now i was working hard and
i will most likely
keep working hard so the time of the
action
is not over i have worked hard today i
think i've worked hard today
yeah i've worked pretty hard today the
second situation where you would use the
present perfect tense
is when you're using the words for and
since to talk about something
that started in the past i could say
something like this
i have lived here for 20 years or
i have worked for my brother since i was
20 years old
so when you use the words for and since
they kind of
indicate to you that you should be using
the present perfect tense
the third situation where you would use
the present perfect is to talk about an
action that has been repeated
between the past and now if i said i
have visited her
six times it's an action that started in
the past
and it's happened five more times since
the very first time i did it
i have visited her six times an action
that started in the past
and was repeated many times the fourth
situation where you would use the
present perfect
is when the time of the action is not
important
i could ask a question like this have
you studied ancient history
and you could respond by saying yes i've
studied ancient history
so the time at which you studied ancient
history is not important here
all that's important is that i want to
know if you have
studied ancient history it's a little
bit of a tricky one to learn
as an english learner but it's
definitely a very common usage of the
present perfect
to talk about something where the time
that that thing happened
is not important in the conversation the
fifth situation where you would use the
present perfect
is to talk about an action that was
recently completed
and you would use the word just in the
sentence you could say this
i have just finished the book that means
that you were reading the book a few
moments ago
and you read the last page just in the
last hour or in the last few minutes
so you do need the word just and you
would use sentences like
i have just finished the book let's talk
a little bit about how to form the
negative
using the present perfect in order to do
this you simply add the word
not between the conjugation of have and
the past participle
so i could say this i have not studied
for my test
i have not visited my sister you can see
i simply added the word not between the
verb have
and the past participle now we have a
sentence in the negative
hey i was just editing the video and i
realized i forgot to mention we use
contractions in the negative as well
we say things like i haven't called you
haven't called he hasn't called she
hasn't called
we haven't called and they haven't
called so there you go i'll just pop in
here for a sec
and add this little clip enjoy the rest
of the lesson
we should also look at how to form a
question using the present perfect
we do this by inverting the sentence we
flip the subject and the verb to have so
you would say things like this
have you cleaned your room and you could
respond by saying yes i have cleaned my
room
have you called your mom and you would
respond by saying yes
i have called my mom so to form a
question using the present perfect
you simply flip the subject of the
sentence with the verb to have
and put a question mark at the end hey
thank you so much for watching this
little lesson on the present perfect i
hope it helped you
a little bit to understand more how to
use this english verb tense
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