🌱Present perfect tense

Vocabulary you will need in this course

Prefix: Letters that adding it to the beginning of one word, changes it into another word

• Example: dis-, co-, sub-, ex-.

Suffix: Letters that added at the end of a word to make a new

• Example: -able, -ious, -ness, -ion.

Been to vs. gone to

have/has + past participle

Present Perfect

• For somethig that started in the past and continues in the present
• For actions performed in unfinished periods of time.

Structure: have / has + past participle

Been to: Completed visits. ”They have been to Paris”

Gone to: Not returned yet. ”They have gone to Paris”

Time expressions

Presen Perfect Continuous

For ongoing events that started in the past.

Example: I’ve been writing this essay

Structure:

have / has + been + verb (ing)

Time expressions

P: prepositions

• For: Refers to periods of time
• Since: From a particular time in the past until now

A: adverbs

• Recently: Not along ago
• Lately: In recent past

1. Nobody has seen him since yesterday
2. I have recently injured my hand
3. It’s been raining for three days
4. I’ve been having nightmares lately

🌱Prefixes and suffixes