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Has - Have Hasn't - Haven't Past participle

PresentPerfect

12. Video

3. Language & Culture

9. Yes/no answers

6.Negative Sentence

11. Practice

2. Rules

8. Questions

5. Affirmartive Contractions

7. Negative Contractions

10. Comparison

4. Affirmative Sentence

1. When to use it

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1. When to use it

  • We have met them
  • She has called him
  • They have traveled
  • I have done it
  • He has studied for the exam

It does not mention a specific time in the past. We don't know exactly when it happened.

Non-specific/indefinite time

2. Rules

have

has

Form the present perfect with the auxiliary verbs have or has

Rule 1

  • She
  • He
  • It
  • I
  • You
  • We
  • They

Some regular verbs

  • call called called
  • Open opened opened
  • Study studied studied
Some irregular verbs
  • Go went gone
  • Come came come
  • Meet met met

Always use the past participle form of verbs

Rule 2

Third column verbs

Past participle

Have - has

Auxiliaries

We do not know when

Non-specific time

3. Language and culture

In British English, the past forms of some words can be regular or irregular!

4. Affirmative Sentence

dancedgonebought

IYouWeTheySheHeIt

havehas

5. Affirmative contractions

I'veYou'veWe'veThey'veShe'sHe'sIt's

havehas

IYouWeTheySheHeIt

6. Negative Sentences

not

dancedgonebought

have has

IYouWeTheySheHeIt

havehas

IYouWeTheySheHeIt

7. Negative contractions

haven't hasn't

not

8. Questions

dancedgonebought

IYouWeTheySheHeIt

HaveHas

01

04

Long -

No, he has not / hasn't been so good

03

02

9. Yes/no answers

Short answers in the present perfect only contract the negative form.

*Affirmative short answers do not get contracted.

Short +

Yes, I have*

Long +

Yes, we have gone

Short -

No, she has not / she hasn't

perfect

Present

Let's see the difference between these two tenses.

simple

Past

10. Comparison

vs

When? Yesterday DefiniteSpecific time

Past simpleThey met yesterday

Present perfectThey have met before

When?IndefiniteNon-specific time

yesterdaylast week1 year agothis morning2001

everneverbeforeyetalready

Non-specific time

Specific time

be / it / best / gift /the

study / exam / they / the / for

go / I / my / to / house / parent's

ride / stepfather / my / horse / a

Organize the information, add an auxiliary, and write (+),(-) and (?) sentences

11. Practice

12. Video

Let's watch the use of present perfect on movies, documentaries, and songs!