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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Present Perfect Tense-Definition, Structure, Examples & Usages.

Present Perfect Tense: Any action that has finished just now but the result hasn't finished rather it is existed now.


Structure : Subject + have/has + Past Participle Form of Verb+ Object.


Examples:

(i)    Have you ever eaten KFC food?
(ii)   I really love this film. I have seen it eight times!
(iii)  We have never had a car.
(iv)  Have you read Hamlet?
 (v)  I have not gone to India.
 
 Usages of Present Perfect Tense:

1.  today, this evening, this morning, this year

 (i)  I have drunk six cup of tea today.
(ii)  Have you taken exercise this morning?
(iii) I haven’t seen Jerry this evening.
(iv) Robert hasn’t studied very hard this year.

2. Past action occurs again:

(i)    I have seen this movie four times.
(ii)   Shirin has lost her passport again. This is the second time this has happened.
(iii)  Jorge is phoning his girlfriend. This is the third time he has phoned her.

3.  just, just now, already, yet, ever, lately, recently, immediately – 

(i)    Population of Dhaka city has increased recently.
(ii)   Many families have shifted to safe place immediately.
(iii)  The government has taken up a scheme to protect Dhaka just now.

 Important Matter:

(a) Usages of 'Already' and 'yet':

 Any action that have finished before expected time 'already' is used -

(i)    Don’t forget to send the letter. Oh! I have already sent it.
(ii)   What time is Mary leaving? Oh! She has already gone.
(iii)  Please send me five hundred taka. I have already sent it.

 To express question and negative expression 'yet' is used-

(i)    Has it stopped raining yet?
(ii)   I have written the letter, but I haven’t sent it yet.

 Difference between 'Already' and 'Yet' :

already  + affirmative sentence
       yet  + negative & question sentence

(i)    I have already done the work.
(ii)   He has not arrived yet.
(iii)  Has the doctor advised anything yet?

Subject + have/has + already + Past Participle Form of Verb
Subject + have/has + not +  Past Participle Form of Verb + yet

Examples of yet and already:

(i)    We have already written our reports.
(ii)   We haven’t written our reports yet.
(iii)  George has already read the book.
(iv)   She hasn’t decided what to do yet.

(b) Usages of 'Been' :

been (to) = visited

Examples:

(i)    Have you ever been to Cox’s Bazar?
(ii)   Have you been there?
(iii)  I have not been to London.

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