Present Perfect

Present Perfect

1. Examples

   • The children have brushed the cat.
   • The cat has chased a mouse under the chair.
   • The cat has slept all afternoon.
   • The children have hidden from the cat.

2. The present perfect tense refers to an action or state that either occurred at an indefinite time in the past or began in the past and continued to the present time

   • This tense is formed by have/has + the past participle.

3. Construction of this verb tense:

   • The first element is have or has
     • The second element is the past participle of the verb, which is usually formed by adding -ed or -d to the verb’s root (example: walked, cleane, typed, laughed)
       • Although English does have quite a few verbs that have irregular past participles (example: done, said, gone, known, won, thought, felt, eaten).