Why the do native speakers use "have come"? have come present perfect. You are standing right there before the other person, explaining why you are there in present time. You're not explaining why you were there ( came ) at some

Anon.: Perhaps your teacher wanted you to use the present perfect because it fits the definition: you did something in the past and it still "touches" the present. You left your home at 5 p.m. You arrive at Tom's home at 5:30. His

Well, you've offered 3 choices: simple past, present perfect and past perfect. Actually, all 3 are possible, but simple past is the most common response because the failure to drop in is clearly in the past.

-Good morning I____ to see Tom -Oh!I'm sorry , but she is not in. A came B come C have come D had come The answer is C. My teacher said that "his coming" has an influence on the present, so present perfect is preferred.

These are a colloquial shortened version of the present perfect tense, "How have you been?" "What have you been doing?" The shortened version is ungrammatical, but common in casual speech.

Sorry, I don't have time to read through this whole discussion, but 'I have owned 3 restaurants' indicates distinctly that he no longer does so : if he still owned them, he would say ' I own 3 restaurants '. The present perfect merely relates the

The sentence "I have owned three restaurants" is used in indefinite past of the present perfect.  Due to this, we, as the audience, do not rightly know that said subject still owns them. Without more information from sentences preceding

The present perfect makes the event (the agreement) more immediate to now and to the discussion.

In this sentence, " Perhaps you are aware that the construction company has agreed to retain many of the trees that are now growing on the property .", I'm wonderring why the present perfect tense was used. Please help. Thanks so much!

gerund is ending with -ing It is usually used with a continuous sense e.g. I am writing to you now. (Past) participle is what I assume you meant: this is the past form of the verb to be used with past tense forms which require two verbs e.g.