How to form the past perfect: HAD + past participle. Situations where you would use the past perfect: Situation: I went to Japan in 1988 and 1991. I turned 10 years old in 1994. Past perfect sentence: I had been to Japan twice by the time I was 10 years old. Situation: My husband ate breakfast at 6:00 AM; I woke up at 7:00 AM; Past perfect Signal Words for Present Perfect Simple vs. Present Perfect Progressive. Signal words can help us to recognise which tense to use in a sentence. Below is a list of signal words for the present perfect simple and present perfect progressive tenses and example sentences. Some signal words are used with both tenses. Let us see some example sentences with formula for present perfect tense when the First Person is Singular: 1) I have studied hard for the exams for the last two months. 2) I have gone to work. 3) I have slept till late this weekend. 4) I have just watched a movie. 5) I have swum since childhood. We use present perfect tense: 1. to show completed actions in the immediate past (things that have just happened) that have some connection to the present. Examples: Their cousins have just arrived. She has already finished her project. 2. to show an action that began in the past and is continuing up to the present. The Present Perfect Simple is used, if an action happened in the past and there is a connection to the present. This action has just stopped or is still going on. There's no exact time expressed when the action happened. Key words: already, just, yet, ever, never, for, since, so far, up to now, not yet, lately, recently. This activity worksheet is a set of ‘find your partner’ cards. There are 8 positive present perfect sentences and 8 negative sentences. Students should find their partner to make a matching pair of positive and negative sentences. Sharing Is Caring! A collection of PDF worksheets for English lessons about the present perfect tense. Includes nU9NE.

5 sentences of present perfect tense