By Present perfect

Re: Present perfect simple, present perfect progressive (John)

Click on the Present perfect, Perfect progressive buttons underneath your posting. Many threads, including:Re: What is the difference? Present Progressive VS Present Perfect Progressive.

Re: a Few grammar questions

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ

register book

Hi teachers, a/What do you call a book which a teacher has to write down what he or she teaches a class? For example, today my teacher teaches my class the lesson " The use of the present perfect" ,so he has to write down in the content of lesson column of the book " The use of...

a Few grammar questions

Hi everyone,I have a few grammar questions and I don't know how to answer them:Explain why the verb “To Be” is not a non-progressive verb?I know the simple present never talks about the present but what can be an exception to this rule?Why does the present tense not exist in English? What...

Re: on vs since

This is something new and big to me. I didn't know that the violation of inserting a time in the past when using perfect tense only applied to PRESENT perfect tense. I thought the rule applied to all types of perfect tenses which is why I gave my examples, examples that I'm confortable...

Re: on vs since

Well, first of all, I said that since would be better. Second, note that it's PAST perfect, not present perfect. We had had a big lunch at 12:30, so I wasn't ready for birthday cake at 2. We had been to his house only yesterday, apparently only shortly before the fire broke out. I...

Re: to focus - Passive or Active voice?

Complete any of the phrases above by adding any of these: frightened of snakes, interested in science, focused on his studies, tired of reading, fascinated by insects, bored with grammar.None of the resulting sentences has a passive construction.CJ

Re: Quake in China

Hi Benny, It's common in reporting information to use the present perfect if the news is VERY recent. A month from now, you would certainly say "reportedly killed" instead of "is reported to have killed." EDITED: A month from now, you probably know how many actually...

Re: is this right?

.I have struck out the incorrect ones:a) I haven’t spoken to him yet - present perfect continuousb) Did you go to the pub last night? - past perfectc) They’re living in Paris now - simple present continuousd) I didn’t know that I hadn’t locked the door - past perfecte)...

Re: is this right?

Is the point of the exercise to label the tense, or to write the the sentence using the tense indicated? All of your sentences are grammatical. Few of them match the tense indicated. A continuous will have an "-ing." A past perfect will have a "had." A present perfect will...