how would we ask a question using present perfect tense particularly about experience
and achievements well all we have to do like at many points in english is take our subject and the
first verb and switch them around so instead of i have studied it's have you studied at university
instead of you have worked for five years it becomes have you worked for five years
have we won a competition have they been to the conference has he or she managed people
so just like we see in other verb tense forms all we have to do is take our subject
and our first verb and switch them around
we can also add the word ever in a question we can only add ever
in a question not in our answers very important to ask if something has happened at any time so if i
asked question number three for example have we won the competition maybe i'm asking about now
have we won have we won the competition have we won a competition but if i add the word ever
this means at any time any time have we ever won a competition
let's try to answer some present perfect questions about experience and achievements
that use the word ever so we're going to look at three examples and see the different ways we could
answer these kinds of questions number one have you ever worked in an english speaking environment
notice where the word ever is it's between our subject you and our past participle
worked have you ever worked this is true in all present perfect questions we put
that word ever which means at any time between our subject and past participle
and only in questions we cannot say i have ever no no no no we only use ever in questions
number two have you ever won an award for your work
and number three have you gotten a scholarship before so in number three we see this word before
this is this also means at any time before now it has the same meaning as ever it's just a
different way that we can ask the question we could say have you ever gotten a scholarship
or have you gotten a scholarship before so these are all questions about work
experience and achievements let's take a look at how we would answer these questions
let's take a look at number one have you ever worked in an english speaking environment
well we could simply answer with yes or no right yes i have no i haven't and if we want
to answer with never right have you ever i have never worked in an english-speaking environment
so these are the three main ways we can answer a question like have you ever yes i have
and then you could explain your experience yes i have i worked in samsung and we spoke english
with our clients and so on no i haven't or no i have never remember ever means at any time so
never means at no time at no time i have never worked in an english-speaking environment
number two have you ever won an award for your work let's look at how we answered number one
can you try to answer number two in these three ways we could say yes i have
no i haven't or no i have never i have never won an award for my work so again these are the
three simple ways we can answer this question we can always add more detail after
have you ever won an award for your work yes i have i won a teaching award in 2016 like this
last let's take a look at number three have you gotten a scholarship before so even though
we aren't using the word ever here we are still asking about before anytime until or before now
so we would answer in the same way yes i have no i haven't or no i have never gotten a scholarship
so notice also in our answers so let's let's uh take a look again at
wherever comes it comes between the subject and the past participle it's the same in our answer
uh the the word never become comes between subject and have and our past participle
i have never worked this is very very important for us to remember
so let's go ahead and look at what we should remember most from this slide
we always use the affirmative verb i have never when we're using the word never
so we would not say i have not never right that's in english called a double negative
not never that means i have so make sure to use i have never if you are answering with never
so what are your experiences and achievements and how could you talk
about them using the present perfect tense okay everyone that's it for today's lesson
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