Just below you will find the links to our FREE present perfect tense worksheets There are three different versions of worksheet here for download, to help with differing classroom and student abilities. These have been tried and tested in ESL and International classrooms.
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What Is The Present Perfect Tense?
The present perfect tense is one of the most important tenses in English. We use it to express what has happened or what has taken place. An easy way to remember it is that this tense tells us about something that began in the past and continues into the present. This means it is either completed or unfinished at the moment when we speak or write about it.
This tense can be translated as “has/have + past participle”. When you’re using this tense, you will be describing an event which took place in the past, but which happens now. For example:
“I have sung for three years.”
“We have met his brother.”
“The dog has died.
The present perfect is made up of two elements, the ‘have’ and the past participle. This is the form that is used when we want to say that something happened in the past which has an effect now. The past participle is used to describe an action or a state, depending on its ending. This ending tells us if we’re looking at an action or a state.
What is a Past Participle?
A past participle is formed in prefect tenses in different ways depending on the verb form. Regular verbs form their past participle by adding /ed/ as in their regular past tense forms. However irregular verbs will form their past participle by ending with /t/, /d/, /en/ and n.
We have examples of these in the table below.
Examples of Past Participles
| Regular verb | Past Participle | Irregular Verb | Past Participle | Irregular ( unchanged) Verb | Past Participle |
| watch | watched | run | ran | cut | cut |
| want | wanted | swim | swum | run | run |
| need | needed | sing | sung | hit | hit |
| play | played | eat | eaten | let | let |
| walk | walked | be | been | met | met |
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Other Parts of Speech resources
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