Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The present perfect
- What it is ?
- The present perfect simple expresses an action that is still going on or that
stopped recently, but has an influence on the present. It puts emphasis on
the result.
- Forms of Present Perfect
- General structure :Have (in the simple present) + Verb (in the past participle form)
- affirmative
- subject+have+past participle
- example:I have spoken
- negative
- subject+have not+past participle
- example: I haven´t spoken
- interrogative
- Have+subject+pastparticiple
- example:Have I spoken?
- verbs
- regular
- ends with -ed
- irregular
- change the verb form
- Uses
- puts emphasis on the result
- Example: She has written five letters.
- action that is still going on
- Example: School has not started yet.
- action that stopped recently
- Example: She has cooked dinner
- finished action that has an influence on the present
- Example: I have lost my key.
- action that has taken place once, never or
several times before the moment of speaking
- Example: I have never been to Australia.
- Adverbs
- already
- just
- ever
- never
- so far
- till now
- yet
- up to now