For this grammar refresh, we'll be looking at the present perfect tense.
Now, the present perfect tense is used to describe an event that started in the past, right.
And it has some connection.
The president still OK, but this is different than the continuous version, the continuous version
we're talking about the entire duration, the entire from the past, all the way now, that whole time
frame.
But the present perfect tense, just without the continuous part is just the.
Action happening or not happening from the past until now.
So.
Slight difference, continuous is always about the whole duration of the action.
Well, the non-contiguous is just about the action itself.
Did it happen or did not happen?
Let's look at our examples to make this clear.
The first thing you should notice is how do you make this present perfect?
Well, hopefully I did this before.
So just a quick reminder, it's going to be the verb.
You have the.
So you can have have or has, right, and then.
The past participle.
Of your main verb, so on our example, our first one, it says, I haven't bought any presents yet.
Haven't bought any presents yet.
I need to do it this weekend here.
I haven't, but that is in the present perfect tense.
This means.
At some point in the past, they never did it and.
They still haven't done it right, which I haven't bought any presents yet.
Now you can see it's a negative, so it's have not but right and we can use a contraction to make it
hasn't.
But and but is the past participle of the word to buy?
In the second example, we have, have you ever spent Thanksgiving with your husband's family?
Have you ever spent Thanksgiving with your husband's family?
No, I haven't.
They live so far away, so it's difficult to take days off that time of the year and go visit them.
So, again, here we have the present perfect tense in a question for so have you ever spent.
So here we're separating have and spent with our subject in the middle.
You this or have you ever spent.
And ever is just an extra word pick up, give some emphasis that you could just say have you spent?
But here we're saying, have you ever spent Thanksgiving with your husband's family?
And then we have.
No, I haven't.
And we have the negative form.
I have not.
And you can see here in this last part.
No, I haven't.
We don't have the main as afterwards, right?
That's because it's implied in the question, but you don't have to say it again.
So have you ever spent Thanksgiving with your husband's family?
No, I haven't.
Which implies, no, I haven't spent Thanksgiving at.
In this Granma refresh, we'll be looking at the present perfect continuous tense.
So here now we're looking at the continuous form of this present perfect tense.
And remember, with continuous forms, we're talking about the duration of the action, not just the
action itself.
And with the present perfect, continuous something that started in the past and is connected all the
way into the present.
So let's look at our examples.
I've been trying to cook the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, but everything is against me this year so
you can see that our present perfect continuous tense is going to be that I've been trying.
So how do we form this present perfect tense?
Well, it's going to be a form of the verb to have to have or has.
Followed by the past participle of to be, which has been and then the present participle of your main
verb, which means you add the ISG to.
So I've been trying since I have been trying to.
So I've been trying to cook the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, so this means that at some point in the
past they started to try it and they've been continuing trying it all the way up until the point they're
talking about.
And this time frame is a whole year, right?
They say.
But everything is against me this year.
Remember, continuous, we're talking about the entire duration.
The second example, we've been living here for five years, but we haven't hosted any dinner parties
yet.
We've been living here.
We have been living here, so at some point in the past, they started living there and they continued
living there all the way up till now for that whole five year duration.