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Hi, my name is Ronnie today
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By special request I'm to teach you some grammar
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Yeah, yeah um a lot of people um
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Comment "thank you", and ask me Ronnie, what's
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Present perfect, what's past
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Perfect what's Pp? Wha, where am I? How did I get here? So I'm here to help you
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Teach you this so you can learn it forever. It's very easy once you get it first of all so
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present perfect
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[Vs.] past perfect
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all of
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The tenses in English when you have something that's perfect it means you have to use the past participle
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of the verb now as
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An English teacher I don't like having to write
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past participle
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because it takes it a long time and it's hard to say really quickly, so
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Most people shorten it to [Pp]. Not I have to pee pee different okay, so when I write on the board
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[Pp]. It means the past participle
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the past participle it's hard to say, of the verb is the third part of the verb so for example if
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you have the verb
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have
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What is the past participle of have?
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No, no, no no had oh yeah
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Good so had is the past participle of have
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perfect, so
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Let's start off
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present perfect we use for
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Events in the past I know it's confusing because it says right here present perfect, but both of these
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grammars
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Grammars both of these tenses we use to talk [about] a past event so present perfect is
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have
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or has
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plus the past participle
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if it is I, they, you, and we. We have if it is he, she, or it
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you have to use has
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This is the number one mistake that
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Students make when they're writing or speaking a lot of people say
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She have which is wrong you have to be careful. You can remember he ,she, it. He, she, it, he shit
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is has
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okay, I, they, you ,and we is have plus the past participle
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So I've asked you. What is the past tense of have?
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answer, had
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so if you know that the present tense
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is have plus p p
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You're Gonna go oh, oh. Yeah, okay. Hold on
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the past tense of
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have
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Is had so when we use past perfect?
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we're all we're changing is this verb to had
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It's that easy
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so
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the other very easy thing about past perfect is
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We don't have to change it for he, she, or it. yay
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There's nothing to really remember about the past perfect except for it's had so I
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He, she, it, they, we, and you . We all use had
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fun times um
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when we use the negative
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It's the same idea except we're using hadn't so I, he, she, it, they, we, you
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hadn't it's
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unusual to say had not
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If you want to use had not it's um to more emphasize things like I had not done that
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but we usually say hadn't
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Okay, and again
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Because it is perfect you have to use the past participle or the PP of the verb
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Is this easy now? so present perfect have plus the past participle
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past perfect had plus the past participle
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good let's go into the negative of
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present perfect
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when we use I, they, you, and we. We have to use haven't
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just like in the present or in the positive and
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again he, she, and it we have to use hasn't plus the past participle if
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you want to make a question in the present perfect you're going to say have or
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has
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Then you're going to use the subject so in this case these are the subjects has he
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plus the past participle has he
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Eaten is a present perfect sentence
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You can change he to a person's name. I can say has Kevin
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eaten because Kevin is a he I have to use has. So remember that as well as
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important
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when we use past perfect
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Like I said, it's the same idea we don't have to change
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This reflecting on the subject. The question form we don't have to try and change either so it's had
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Plus your subject
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plus your past participle, and you must
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Have a question mark if you do not have a question mark at the end of the sentence
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It's just wrong and your teacher goes wrong
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and you don't understand why because you remember has and have but
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Don't forget the question mark alright
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so I hope that you can remember how to use or how to sorry how to make present perfect and
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Past perfect if you have any questions, or comments about this please
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Email me
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go to Engvid.com
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Write me a letter, write me a comment, and I'll get back to you soon. Bye. Bye
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