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Eric_ek Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Verb tenses

Hello everybody,

My question seems very simple for some of you, but for me is still dificult to understand. It's about the verb tenses, i don't know WHEN and HOW i use the present perfect and the past perfect, also i don't know when i use the continuous form of then.
I would appreciate if you answer these questions for me.
  

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Present Perfect is a ) to indicate a completed activities in the immediate past : eg He has just gone out. b ) to express past actions whose time is not given and not definite : eg Mary has been to Japan. c ) to denote an action beginning at some time in the past and continuing up to the present moment eg We have lived here for ten years.

  • Present Perfect is a ) to indicate a completed activities in the immediate past : eg He has just gone out.
  • b ) to express past actions whose time is not given and not definite : eg Mary has been to Japan.
  • c ) to denote an action beginning at some time in the past and continuing up to the present moment eg We have lived here for ten years.
  • Past Perfect is two actions took place in the past.
  • One is earlier than the other.
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Present Perfect is

a ) to indicate a completed activities in the immediate past :

eg He has just gone out.

b ) to express past actions whose time is not given and not definite :

eg Mary has been to Japan.

c ) to denote an action beginning at some time in the past and continuing up to the present moment

eg We have lived here for ten year

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