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Present Perfect
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Tense

Warm-up

Read these questions and write their answers in complete sentences.

1. Have you played computer games?

2. Have you finished your homework?

3. Have you watched the film Frozen?

4. Have you ever met a film star?

5. Have you read the novel Daddy-Long-Legs?

6. Have you ever made your bed?

7. Have you gone to a market alone?

8. Have you eaten the pasta I made?

These questions ask you about experiences that happened sometime in the past.

We use the present perfect tense to refer to completed events, states or actions in
the past which took place within a period of time which is unfinished. Sometimes we
use expressions like ‘today’/‘this year’ to specify this unfinished period of time. This
tense is formed by have/has + the past participle.
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*For a list of irregular verbs and their simple present, simple past and past participle forms, refer to the booklet.

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