The present perfect tense is used very often in the English language. There are many ways to use the present perfect!
Talking About Experience
Use the present perfect to talk about something that happened in the past. The time can be a long time ago or quite recently.
Here are a few examples of using the present perfect to talk about experience.
I have read all these books so many times!
We've seen Niagra Falls before.
He's grown a long beard!
Connections with the Present
Sometimes we use the present perfect to talk about connections between the past and the present. To do this, we use adverbs like:
- already
- yet
- still
- so
- far
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