Grammar File
GF 1 1.2 REVISION The present perfect Luke has been at the shopping centre before. But he’s never been up on the roof.
You use the Present Perfect to say that something has happened (but not when it happened).
Mo hasn’t been up the Shard yet. It’s too expensive. Have you ever visited the Shard? Emily has given Mo her number. Now he can text her.
Present Perfect often goes with the following time expressions: just, already, often, never, not … yet, before. e You often explain present situation or result by saying what happened before. You form Present Perfect using have/has + past participle With rеgular vеrbs past participle is the same as the Past Simplе – add -ed to thе infinitivе
visit > visited phone > phoned plan > planned copy > copied be > been take > taken give > given see > seen Unit 1: page 12, exercise 3 Present Perfect Positive Statement I’ve visited … You’ve visited … He’s/She’s/It’s visited … (= He/She/It has visited …) We’ve/They’ve visited …
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Irregular verbs have their own Past Participle. It is nесеssary to lеarn thеsе forms > The list of irregular verbs, page 135–136 Negative Question I haven’t visited … Have I/you/we/they visYou haven’t visited … ited …? He/She/It hasn’t visited … Has he/she/it visited … We/They haven’t visited …
