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Present Perfect Tense Definition:

  • Present perfect tense (sometimes called the present perfect simple tense is used to talk about things that happened sometime in the past, but which are not given a specific time or date.

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Present Perfect Tense Notes:

Present perfect tense refers to an action or state of work that either took place at an indefinite time in the past (e.g., we have walked before) or began in the past and continued to the present time (e.g., she has grown impatient over the last hour). This tense is formed by adding have/has + the past participle. While constructed this tense We have first element have or has, depending on the subject the verb is conjugated with. The second element is the past participle of the verb, which is basically formed by adding -ed or -d at the end of the verb. e.g walked,talked,jumped,skipped etc. Following are the formula we use to make simple perfect present tense
Positive tense subject + has/have+ third form of verb. Example "I've used those images before "
negative subject + hasn't /haven't + third form verb. Example "I haven't used those images before.
interrogative Has/Have+ subject + third form of verb. Example " Have you used those images ?"

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