PRESENT PERFECT TENS

Our lesson today is about the present perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very simple. The problems come with the use of the tense. In addition, there are some differences in usage between British and American English. The present perfect tens is used to show past action which occur before another past action.

Example: The club had prepared the report before the members left for the seminar.

                   After the president had read the report, the secretary came to meat him.

Clue to easy remember:

had+past participle of the verbs