PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT

1. "For" + período de tempo

   • EXEMPLO:
     • for six years
     • I have worked here for five years.

2. "Since" + momento concreto

   • EXEMPLO:
     • since this morning
     • I have worked here since 1990.

3. "Present perfect" + "FOR"

   • She has lived here for twenty years.
   • Alice has been married forthree months.

4. "Present perfect" + "SINCE"

   • She has lived here since 1980
   • Alice has been married since March 2nd.

5. Ever e Never

   • The adverbs never and never identified themselves at an unidentified moment before the present (Have you ever visited Berlin?). "Always" and "never" are always inserted before the main verb (without "past participle"). "Ever"
     • Exemplos Have you ever been to England? Has she ever met the Prime Minister?
   • Em perguntas negativas: Exemplos Haven't they ever been to Europe? Haven't you ever eaten Chinese food?
   • Never "Never" means never before now and is equivalent to "no ... never": (I never visited Berlin).
   • Never use never and not together.

6. With the present perfect, the action cannot have specific data, the “when” does not exactly matter. ... The perfect past refers to an action in the past (at a specified time or not) that ended before another action in the past or before a specific moment in the past.