Present

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Present Perfect Tense
Primary Five
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We form the present perfect tense with have /
has past participle.
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Irregular verbs
Present Past Present perfect
drink
eat
ride
swim
throw
see
go
have / has drunk
drank
have / has eaten
ate
rode
have / has ridden
swam
have / has swum
threw
have / has thrown
saw
have / has seen
went
have / has gone
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Irregular verbs
Present Past Present perfect
do
make
write
take
draw
break
speak
have / has done
did
made
have / has made
wrote
have / has written
took
have / has taken
drew
have / has drawn
broke
have / has broken
spoke
have / has spoken
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Regular verbs
Present Past Present perfect
cook
open
paint
plant
walk
move
tidy
have / has cooked
cooked
opened
have / has opened
painted
have / has painted
planted
have / has planted
walked
have / has walked
moved
have / has moved
tidied
have / has tidied
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We use the present perfect tense to show the
result of an action.
(b) Sam has eaten a chicken leg.
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We cannot use the present perfect tense with
adverbs of time, e.g. yesterday, two weeks ago.
I did my homework yesterday.
I have done my homework yesterday.
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Practice 1
Present
Past
Present perfect
made
have / has made
e.g. make
did
have / has done
1. do
tidied
have / has tidied
2. tidy
ate
3. eat
have / has eaten
drew
have / has drawn
4. draw
took
have / has taken
5. take
painted
have / has painted
6. paint
7. write
have / has written
wrote
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Present
Past
Present perfect
rode
8. ride
have / has ridden
9. swim
swam
have / has swum
10. go
went
have / has gone
moved
have / has moved
11. move
12. see
saw
have / has seen
13. speak
spoke
have / has spoken
14. cook
cooked
have / has cooked
15. break
broke
have / has broken
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Already / yet
In the present perfect tense, we use yet with
questions or negative (no) sentences.
Have you eaten the apples yet?
(question)
Yet goes at the END of the question or sentence.
No, I havent eaten the apples yet. (negative)
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Already / yet
In the present perfect tense, we use already with
positive (yes) sentences.
Have you eaten the apples yet?
(question)
Yes, I have already eaten the apples. (positive)
Already goes in the MIDDLE or at the END of the
sentence.
or Yes, I have eaten the apples already.
(positive)
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Already / yet
e.g.
do
Has
done
yet
______ Lily _______ her homework _____? Yes, she
__________her homework _______ .
has done
already
or
Yes, she _________________her homework.
has already done
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Already / yet
e.g.
eat
Has
yet
eaten
______ Bob _______ his hamburger_____ ? No, he
___________________ his hamburger _______ .
hasnt / has not eaten
yet
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Practice 2
1 (do) ________ Ann ________ the washing
_______ ? Yes, she _______________ the
washing.
Has
done
yet
has already done
2 (make) ________ Sally and Joe ________
their beds _______ ? No,
they__________________ their beds _______ .
Have
made
yet
havent/have not made
yet
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3 (throw) ________ you ________ away the
rubbish ________ ? Yes, I ______________
away the rubbish ________ .
Have
thrown
yet
ve / have thrown
already
4 (write) ________ Tom ________ the letter
_______ ? No, he ___________________ the
letter _______ .
Has
written
yet
hasnt/has not written
yet
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