Comments on: How to use the present perfect tenses in English http://www.english-at-home.com Learn English for free Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:05:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Clare http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-45325 Clare Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:06:02 +0000 http://english-at-home.com/beta-wp/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-45325 My clothes have got dirty. (clothes is a plural noun) My clothes have got dirty. (clothes is a plural noun)

]]> By: Luboš http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-45224 Luboš Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:57:40 +0000 http://english-at-home.com/beta-wp/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-45224 "Oops, my clothes got dirty" or "Oops, my clothes has got dirty." ?? "Oops, my clothes got dirty" or "Oops, my clothes has got dirty." ??

]]> By: Clare http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-42955 Clare Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:02:26 +0000 http://english-at-home.com/beta-wp/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-42955 In the first sentence, "in the last year" isn't a past time expression. It means in the last year up to now, so there is still time for him to write more stories. The same is true in the second sentence - you're talking about time up to now (so not finished time in the past). In the first sentence, "in the last year" isn't a past time expression. It means in the last year up to now, so there is still time for him to write more stories.

The same is true in the second sentence – you're talking about time up to now (so not finished time in the past).

]]> By: levan http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-42953 levan Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:43:04 +0000 http://english-at-home.com/beta-wp/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-42953 Could somebody spell out in follow two sentences why we used perfect form, because we indicated time when tis action happend: 1) He has written seven very creative short stories in the. last year. 2) Things have changed a great deal in the last hundred and fifty years Could somebody spell out in follow two sentences why we used perfect form, because we indicated time when tis action happend:
1) He has written seven very creative short stories in the.
last year.
2) Things have changed a great deal in the last hundred and fifty years

]]> By: Clare http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-41738 Clare Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:28:40 +0000 http://english-at-home.com/beta-wp/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/#comment-41738 Because it's something in the past (without a time reference) which has a result in the present. See the first point in the explanation on this page: http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/ Because it's something in the past (without a time reference) which has a result in the present.

See the first point in the explanation on this page:
http://www.english-at-home.com/grammar/how-to-use-the-present-perfect-tenses-in-english/

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