hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English grammar
are you ready let's begin specifically have we're going to concentrate on the
word have how we can use that in sentences have plus a past participle
what's a past participle well you've got the infinitive the base form for example
the word go you have the simple past which is the word went you have a past
participle which is the word going and we're dealing with the past participle
have plus past participle equals present perfect i we you they he she it I've I
have we can make a contraction I've I've what I walked to work every day this
week we we've talked we talked many times at lunch you you have for you but
you've worked you've worked here for ten years they they have they've they've
lost every game they ever played he now we have to switch we go from i we you
they we get down to he she it so now we're going to use halves has we make a
contraction it is going to be apostrophe s instead of ' ve a positive es he's
suami the entire length of the pool twenty times
she's or she has she's thrown the ball further than any of her friends ever
could if it's what all through the town maybe it was a deer a deer it it's
walked all through town all right i we you they he she it now the negative we
put not in here have none you have not talked or you have it we make a
contraction have and not haven't n apostrophe T have same thing with hazard
we can make a negative she hasn't thrown the ball further than anyone else that
could be it okay now let's take a look at what we have here these are called
regular verbs regular verbs what walked is a past participle but it's got ed on
it right that's because it's a regular verb normally if you have the infinitive
walk you're going to have the simple past walked and then because it's an ED
ending for the simple past you're going to have an ED ending for the past
participle as well so you've got walk walk what talked talked talked work
worked worked but we get down here and we have some irregular verbs ok now
irregular verbs we have the word lost okay here's how lost works lost lost
lost it's the same word three times now we have here we have
own well it would be swim swam swung the simple past would be swam but no ed so
we have swim swim swim no ed for the simple past and lost ok so it's an
irregular verb throne we have throw through throne alright so makes a
difference regular verb irregular verbs makes our English a little more
confusing doesn't it but you have to learn these little ins and outs and
there are no perfect rules in English there's always going to be an exception
to something for example lost lost lost come on who thought of that ok now let's
look a little further at how we can use have so what is the present perfect the
present perfect is something we use when we talk about someplace in the past from
the past until now somewhere in the past up until now not right now not in the
future in the past up to this moment so if somebody were to say have you been to
Mexico that means any time ever have you ever been there they could say have you
ever been to Mexico or have you ever been swimming whatever the case might be
your answer yes I have or know I have it again we're using have ok then here
maybe their answer would be have you ever been to Mexico no I oops ' be e
posture the-- the e no I've never been to Mexico so we often use the words ever
and in the negative never thank you for watching this video this
is the conclusion of this lesson and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson goodbye for now