The document discusses the present perfect tense, including its use to talk about past actions without specifying a time, its forms using have/has plus the past participle, and negative and interrogative forms. It also covers spelling rules and common time expressions used with the present perfect such as ever, always, never, and just.

1. PRESENT PERFECT
USE, FORMS, SPELLING RULES, TIME EXPRESSIONS

2. USE
We use the Present Perfect to talk
about actions in the past, when we
don’t say exactly when they
happened.

3. AFFIRMATIVE
• SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + Past Participle + COMPLEMENTS

4. NEGATIVE
SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS +NOT+ Past Participle+ COMPLEMENTS
haven’t read
hasn’t had
haven’t
lived

5. INTERROGATIVE
HAVE/HAS+ SUBJECT+ PAST PARTICIPLE+ COMPL. +?
SHORT ANSWERS
YES, SUBJECT+ HAVE/ HAS
NO, SUBJECT+HAVEN’T/HASN’T

6. lived
Have
Have
haven’t
Have lived
have haven’t
Has lived
has hasn’t
live
have haven’t

7. SPELLING
RULES
the pdf document in Alexia Classroom

8. TIME EXPRESSIONS
• EVER in questions (any time in your life?)
• Have you ever been to Australia?
• ALWAYS in affirmative sentences
• I’ve always travelled by plane
• NEVER in affirmative sentences (not ever)
• I’ve never driven a motorbike
• JUST in affirmative sentences (right now)
• I’ve just finished my homework