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present perfect

NOUN
  1. a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
    `I have finished' is an example of the present perfect

How To Use present perfect In A Sentence

  • There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.
  • In my view, the present perfect is forbidden when the verb is qualified by an adverbial referring to a time period, except if the time period includes the present.
  • There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.
  • `I have finished' is an example of the present perfect
  • The tense is present perfect progressive.
  • In my view, the present perfect is forbidden when the verb is qualified by an adverbial referring to a time period, except if the time period includes the present.
  • Of course, diversity is only a problem if you are trying to frog-march everyone towards a very narrowly-defined objective, such as “mastering the present perfect continuous.” E is for Ecology « An A-Z of ELT
  • Well, some teachers and I have recently engaged in a discussion about present perfect and present perfect continous and I thought that maybe you could help us. C is for Corpus « An A-Z of ELT
  • We do not know the stages through which the eye has passed to its present perfected state, but, since the number of simple eyes (facets) has become very much greater in the male than in the female, we may assume that their increase is due to a gradual duplication of the determinants of the ommatidium in the germ-plasm, as I have already indicated in regard to sense-organs in general. Evolution in Modern Thought
  • The present perfect is covered in Unit 8.
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