Present Perfect

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Present Perfect

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Present Perfect

How do you make a present perfect?

You use have or has (I have, they have, we have, she/he/it has)

You use the third form (voltooid deelwoord) of the verb (usually with -ed at the end, but watch out for irregular verbs!)

• I have walked
• The movie has begun
  

Present Perfect

You use it for ...

1. An event that started in the past and still continues in the present.

• Lisa has been my friend for five years now.
• I have had a room of my own since I was 12.
  

Present Perfect

2. With words like just, already and yet.

• I have just come back from England.
• Have you cleaned your room yet?
  

Other signal words are for, since, always, ever and never.

• We've never beaten that team yet.
  

Present Perfect

3. If an action is already finished, but the result is still important.

• Dad has painted that door, so don't touch it. (He's finished painting, but the paint is still wet.)
• Look, it has snowed! (It has finished snowing, but the snow itself is still there.)
  

Make a present perfect: you / eat / Thai food before?

Make a present perfect: it / rain / all day?

Make a present perfect: who / he / meet recently?

Make a present perfect: what countries / they / visit in Europe?

Make a present perfect: she / go / to the library today.

Write down something you think only you have done. Start by writing 'stand up if you have ever ...'

Please go to ...

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