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    The Present Perfect

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    The document discusses different tenses in English including the past simple, present perfect, past perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. It provides examples of how to use each tense and the time expressions that are used with each. The past simple is used to talk about finished past actions with no connection to the present. The present perfect is used to look back on past actions connected to the present. The past perfect continuous is used to talk about something that was happening before another past action. The past perfect simple looks back from one point in the past to an earlier point in the past.

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    The Present Perfect

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    The document discusses different tenses in English including the past simple, present perfect, past perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. It provides examples of how to use each tense and the time expressions that are used with each. The past simple is used to talk about finished past actions with no connection to the present. The present perfect is used to look back on past actions connected to the present. The past perfect continuous is used to talk about something that was happening before another past action. The past perfect simple looks back from one point in the past to an earlier point in the past.

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    The document discusses different tenses in English including the past simple, present perfect, past perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. It provides examples of how to use each tense and the time expressions that are used with each. The past simple is used to talk about finished past actions with no connection to the present. The present perfect is used to look back on past actions connected to the present. The past perfect continuous is used to talk about something that was happening before another past action. The past perfect simple looks back from one point in the past to an earlier point in the past.

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    THE PAST SIMPLE is used to talk about actions in the past that have finished.

    It
    talks about 'then' and definitely excludes 'now'.
    THE PRESENT PERFECT simple to look back on actions in the past from the
    present. It always includes 'now'.
    We form the Simple Past:
    with regular verbs: infinitive + -ed
    with irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs
    These sentences are in the past with no connection to the present.
    I first got to know him 10 years ago.
    I started work here in 1989.
    I had too much to eat at lunchtime.
    Now look at these same situations seen from the present.
    I've known him for 10 years.
    I've worked here since 1987.
    My stomach hurts. I've eaten too much.
    We use time expressions like 'yesterday', 'ago', 'last year', 'in 1999' with the past
    simple.
    We spoke to him yesterday.
    He came in a few moments ago.
    We made our last purchase from them over a year ago.
    She joined the company in 1999.
    We use time expressions like are 'ever', 'never', 'since' with the present perfect.
    I've never seen so many people here before.
    Have you ever been more surprised?
    I've done a lot since we last talked about it.

    We use the PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS to look back at a situation in


    progress.
    It was a good time to invest. Inflation had been falling for several months.
    Before I changed jobs, I had been working on a plan to reduce production
    costs.
    We had been thinking about buying a new house but then we decided to stay
    here.
    We use it to say what had been happening before something else happened.
    It had been snowing for a while before we left.
    We had been playing tennis for only a few minutes when it started raining.
    He was out of breath when he arrived because he had been running.
    We use it when reporting things said in the past.
    She said she had been trying to call me all day.
    They said they had been shopping.
    I told you I had been looking for some new clothes.

    We use the PAST PERFECT SIMPLE to talk about what happened before a point
    in the past. It looks back from a point in the past to further in the past.
    I hadn't known the bad news when I spoke to him.
    She had already told him before I got a chance to give him my version.
    The company has started the year well but was badly hit by the postal strike.
    The past perfect simple is often used when we report what people had
    said/thought/believed.
    He told me they had already paid the bill.
    He said he believed that John had moved to Italy.
    I thought we had already decided on a name for this product.

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