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Formation and use of the present perfect in English and the uses of the particles "for" and "since".

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The present perfect

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1. What's the present perfect

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An action that started in the past and it continues in the present

How can we form the present perfect?

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Subject + have / has + past participle.

How can we form the present perfect?

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Michael has gone out.

Subject + have / has + past participle.

How can we form the present perfect?

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They have watched that film.

Michael has gone out.

Subject + have / has + past participle.

How can we form the the present perfect?

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I have met your cousin.

They have watched that film.

Michael has gone out.

Subject + have / has + past participle.

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Positive sentences in the present perfect

Subject + have/has + past participle

Phil has worked all night long.

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Positive sentences in the present perfect.

Subject + have / has + past participle

Phil has worked all night long.

They have gone to Granada.

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Negative sentences in the present perfect

Subject + have/has + not + past participle.

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Negative sentences in the present perfect

Subject + have/has + not + past participle.

Phil has not worked there.

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Negative sentences in the present perfect.

Subject + have/has + not + past participle.

Phil has not worked there.

They have not gone to Granada.

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Interrogative sentences in the present perfect.

Subject + have / has + past participle.

Have / has + subject +

past participle...?

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Interrogative sentences in the present perfect.

Have/has + subject + past participle...?

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Interrogative sentences in the present perfect.

Has Phil worked there?

Have/has + subject + past participle...?

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Interrogative sentences in the present perfect

Have they gone to Granada?

Have/has + subject + past participle...?

Has Phil worked there?

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Uses of "for" and "since" in the present perfect.

Source: Woodward English.

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