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Present Perfect Tense
Uses:
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Unfinished periods of time.
Events, states, actions.Today, this year…
‘I’ve had two exams this week,’
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Recent past...
“They have (just) arrived in Argentina.”“He has eaten lots of things!”
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Events with present relevance or connection
‘Look! I’ve bought a new bag!’
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Completed events, states or actions with no specific time.
“Adam Sandler has starred
many movies.”
Personal biographies, news report…
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Past Simple tense.
Finished periods of time1) Did you go to the party?...(on Saturday)2) Shakespeare wrote over 30 plays. (during his life)IMPLICIT MEANING OR EXPLICIT LAST WEEK, ONE WEEK AGO, IN 2004, ETC
MEANING
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PRECISE DETAIL
“I saw Jane this morning.”
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Telling stories...Sequence of events.
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Phrases of Thumb.
★Present Perfect: just, already, yet, ever, before, never.
★Past Simple: Yesterday, ago, last month, in 1810, etc.
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To sum up