Practice Present Perfect Tense | English Grammar Course #6 | CheckUp

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Hi, everyone. I'm Esther.
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We're now doing a checkup for the present perfect tense.
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We're going to do a lot of practice questions,
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so let's get started.
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For this checkup, we'll take a look at the present perfect tense.
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Which describes an action that happened at
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an unknown or indefinite time in the past.
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Let's look at the first sentence.
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‘She _blank_ read that book.’
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The subject in this sentence is ‘she’.
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For he/she/it, in this tense we say, ‘has’.
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‘She has’.
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Now, take a look at the verb.
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It looks like ‘read’.
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But remember we need to use the past participle of the verb.
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So It's actually ‘read’.
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‘read’ and ‘read’ are spelled the same.
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‘She has read that book.’
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The second sentence says, ‘They _blank_ visit China.’
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‘visit’ is the verb that you want to use here.
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For ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’, we use ‘have’. Not ‘has’.
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‘They have’
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Now, what's the past participle of visit?
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The answer is ‘visited’.
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‘They have visited China.’
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Next, ‘We _blank_ see that concert.’
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Again, for ‘I’, ‘you’, we’ and ‘they’ – we use ‘have’.
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‘We have’. Now, the past participle of ‘see’ is 'seen'.
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‘We have seen that concert.’
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Now, let's look for the mistake in the next sentence.
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‘Rick have been to Cuba.’
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Take a look at the subject, ‘Rick’.
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Rick is a ‘he’.
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So instead of ‘have’, we need to change this to ‘has’.
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‘Rick has been to Cuba.’
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‘Sally and I hasn't finished work.’
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The subject in this sentence is ‘Sally’ and ‘I’.
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The pronoun for that is ‘we’.
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‘We hasn't finished work.’
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That still sounds weird, right?
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We have to change this to ‘have not’ or the contraction ‘haven't’.
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And finally, ‘I did go to the doctor.’
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Now this sentence makes sense, but it's not the present perfect tense.
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We have to change it.
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Remember, we use ‘have’ for the subject, ‘I’.
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But we're not done.
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What is the past participle of ‘go’?
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It is ‘gone’.
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‘I have gone to the doctor.’
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Great job. Let's move on to the next checkup.
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In this checkup, we'll talk about the present perfect tense
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and how it can be used to describe an action that started in the past and is still true today.
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The first sentence says, ‘I _blank_ known Carly since 1994.’
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The subject is ‘I’.
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And we already have the past participle of the verb, ‘know’.
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Which is ‘known’.
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What are we missing?
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The correct answer is ‘have’.
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For ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’, we use ‘have’ after the subject.
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The next sentence says,
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‘He has been here _blank_ 2 p.m.’
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Now the first part is all there.
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‘He has been’.
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However, remember that for the present perfect tense,
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we use ‘for’ or ‘since’ to talk about how long that action has been true.
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In this case, we use ‘since’.
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Because 2 p.m. is a specific period in time.
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Next it says, ‘She _blank_ liked Tom since June.’
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The subject is ‘she’.
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And we have the past participle of the verb ‘like’, which is 'liked'.
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What are we missing?
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Again, we need ‘have’ or ‘has’.
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Because the subject is ‘she’...
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Can you figure out which one you need?
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The correct answer is ‘has’.
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‘She has liked Tom since June.’
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Now, I want you to find a mistake in the next sentence.
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‘I have worked here six months ago.’
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Can you find a mistake here?
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‘I have worked’ - that's correct.
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However, in the present perfect tense, we don't use ‘ago’.
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This is talking about more the past.
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We want to talk about ‘since’ or ‘for’ instead.
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Now ‘six months’ is not a specific time. So we don't use ‘since’.
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Instead, we talk about the duration. So we need ‘for’.
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We'll say, ‘I have worked here for six months.’
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Let's take a look at the next sentence.
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‘Jen have a cold for two weeks.’
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At first glance, this doesn't seem that wrong.
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But remember, Jen is a ‘she’.
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So we need ‘has’.
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‘Jen has’.
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But wait a minute, ‘Jen has have a cold’?
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That's not right either.
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We need the past participle of ‘have’.
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What is the past participle?
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The correct answer is ‘had’.
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‘Jen has had a cold for two weeks.’
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And finally, ‘We haven't went home since Friday.’
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This one is a little tricky.
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The subject is ‘we’.
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‘We have... have not’. That's correct.
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The contraction is ‘haven't’. ‘We haven't’.
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Now the problem is, we have this verb ‘went’.
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That's in the past simple tense.
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We need the past participle of ‘go’.
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The correct answer is ‘gone’.
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‘We haven't gone home since Friday.’
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Good job, guys. Let's move on to the next checkup.
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In this checkup, we'll take a look at the present perfect tense.
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And how it is used to describe an action that finished recently.
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We'll be focusing on the words, ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘recently’ to show this.
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Let's take a look at the first sentence.
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‘She has just _blank_ that book.’
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And we're using the verb, ‘read’.
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Remember, we take the subject, ‘she’.
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And for ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘it’, we say ‘has’.
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So that's correct.
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Now we need the past participle of ‘read’.
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And that is ‘read’.
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‘She has just read that book.’
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You'll notice I use the word, ‘just’ right before the past participle.
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Next it says, ‘They have already’ and the verb is ‘wake up’.
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If the subject is ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’, we use ‘has’.
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But if the subject is ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’ or ‘they’, we use ‘have’.
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So that's correct. ‘They have’.
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Also we have the word ‘already’ here to show that it happened recently
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or that it finished recently.
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Now the verb is ‘wake up’.
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We need the past participle of ‘wake up’,
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and that is ‘woken up’.
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So the answer is,
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‘They have already woken up.’
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The next sentence says,
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‘We have recently _blank_ work.’
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And the verb is ‘finish’.
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‘We have’, that's correct.
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And we have the word 'recently' to show when the action finished.
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And now we need to find the past participle of the verb ‘finish’.
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The correct answer is.
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‘We have recently finished, -ed, work.’
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Now try to find the mistake in the next sentence.
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‘Morty has eaten just.’
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This sounds a little strange, right?
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That's because ‘just’ needs to come before the verb.
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Therefore, the answer is ‘Morty has just eaten.’
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The next sentence says, ‘Karen has recently be sick.’
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Karen is a ‘she’.
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So ‘has’ is correct.
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And there we have ‘recently’.
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Now we need the past participle of the verb.
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‘be’ is our verb and the past participle of ‘be’ is ‘been’.
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‘Karen has recently been sick.’
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And finally, ‘I have gone already to the dentist.’
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This is similar to another question we looked at just before.
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‘I have gone already to the dentist.’
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The placement of ‘already’ is a little awkward.
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So we can say, ‘I have already gone.’
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So we can put ‘already’ before the verb,
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‘I have already gone to the dentist’
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Or we can put this at the end,
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‘I have gone to the dentist already.’
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Both of those are correct.
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Now, good job.
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That is the end of the checkup.
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Let's move on.
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Excellent job, everyone.
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You just learned about the present perfect tense.
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There was a lot to learn, but you did a wonderful job.
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Keep studying English.
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I know that It's hard, but you will get better with time, effort and practice.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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