Sometimes we can use the past simple here, especially in US English. I've lost my keys so I can't get into my house. She's hurt her leg so she can't play tennis today. They've missed the bus so they will be late. However, the past simple is also correct in these cases, especially in US English. The Queen has given a speech. I've just seen Lucy. The Mayor has announced a new plan for the railways.
Been and Gone In this tense, we use both 'been' and 'gone' as the past participle of 'go', but in slightly different circumstances. We use 'been' often when we talk about life experience to mean that the person we're talking about visited the place and came back. I've been to Paris in my life, but now I'm in London, where I live.
She has been to school today but now she's back at home. They have never been to California. We use 'gone' often when we are talking about an action with a result in the present to mean that the person went to the place and is at the place now. Here is a confirmatory test for this lesson. This test can also be: Edited i. Printed to create a handout. Sent electronically to friends or students. Did you spot a typo? Grammarly's app will help with: 1 Avoiding spelling errors 2 Correcting grammar errors 3 Finding better words This free browser extension works with webmail, social media, and texting apps as well as online forms and Microsoft Office documents, like Word and Teams.
Download the app. That is, the future-perfect tense expresses an action or state taking place before another action or time period in the future. For example, suppose you will arrive at the airport at a. Suppose the plane will leave at a. Thus: When you arrive at the airport, the plane will have left.
Other examples include: You may call me at my office tomorrow at a. I will have arrived by then. They will be exhausted when they land tomorrow. They will not have slept for many hours. The perfect tenses show an accomplished fact in relation to a particular point in time in the present, the past, or the future. Substitute the straight past tense for the past-perfect tense and see what you get: When I arrived, he finished his dinner. This latter statement suggests, or could suggest, that after I arrived, he finished his dinner , whereas the past-perfect tense makes it plain that by the time I got there he had already finished his dinner.
With a single utterance, she abolished the past-perfect tense. Forming the Perfect Tenses As noted above in the discussion of past participles, you form the perfect tenses by conjugating the verb to have and adding the past participle of the verb. Thus, the three perfect tenses in first-person singular look like this: Perfect Tense Example Present-Perfect Tense I have decided to retire. Past-Perfect Tense Pluperfect I had decided to retire. Future-Perfect Tense I will have decided to retire.
Hard Copy You may download our entire discussion of the Parts of Speech. Email Print. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. Resources for learning English. Test your English. Present perfect Definition of the present perfect tense The present perfect is used to indicate a link between the present and the past.
There may be a verb tense in your language with a similar form, but the meaning is probably NOT the same. Actions started in the past and continuing in the present They haven't lived here for years. She has worked in the bank for five years. We have had the same car for ten years. Have you played the piano since you were a child?
When the time period referred to has not finished I have worked hard this week.
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