LEARN ENGLISH | Lesson 4

LEARN ENGLISH | Lesson 4

LESSON 3

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE (ACTIVE VOICE)

The Present Perfect tense is used to describe an action that occurred or completed some point in past. This tense expresses an occurrence of an action in past without giving an idea about the exact time of its occurrence even though the time is not exactly specified and the action is completed recent past(not very long time ago).

The following is the formula for Present Perfect tense.

PRONOUN + AUXILIARY + VERB(PAST PARTICIPLE)

Whereby

Pronoun = I, we, you, she, he, it, they

AUXILIARY = have and has

VERB(PP) is like cooked, drunk, eaten, spoken, gone, given and so on

Consider the following illustration to see how am, is and are how can be used to compose a sentence in Present Continuous Tense.

Pronoun/Subject	Auxiliary	Verb(PP)
I You They We	have	gone
		eaten
		written
		painted
She	has	danced
He		cooked
It		come

For example

NEGATIVE SENTENCE

Don’t forget that all the time when we want to have a negative sentence we must add the word “not” in front of the auxiliary as

PRONOUN + AUXILIARY + NOT+VERB(PP)?

Have – have not or hasn’t or ain't                                   
Has   –   has not or hasn’t or ain't                                      

For example

1.     I have not gone

2.   They have not spoken the truth.

3.     He has not taken.

INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE (QUESTION)

Generally, when you want ask a question you must start with an auxiliary as.

Formula

AUXILIARY + PRONOUN + VERB(PP)?

For example

1.     Have you gone?.

2.     Have they taken ?.

3.   Has he come?.

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