2.3.1

Present Perfect Tense

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The Past Tense

When something has happened before, we use the past tense. You will have already learnt that most past tense verbs end in 'ed'. This is how the verb 'to watch' works in the past tense.

The Present Perfect Tense

We use the present perfect tense to talk about things that have happened more than once in the past or to talk about things that happened at an unknown time in the past.

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Past perfect tense

  • The present perfect tense always uses has or have followed by a past tense verb.
  • We will look at examples of the past perfect tense on the next slides...

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1Reading

1.1Root Words

1.1.1Understanding New Words

1.1.2Exception Words

1.2Prefixes

1.2.1'Anti-' & 'Auto-'

1.2.2Not & 'Inter-'

1.2.3'Mis-', 'Dis-' & 'Re-'

1.2.4'Sub-' & 'Super-'

1.2.5End of Topic Test - Root Words & Prefixes

1.3Suffixes

1.3.1Vowel Suffixes

1.3.2Suffixes: '-ous'

1.3.3Rules for Suffixes: '-ous'

1.3.4Testing - Rules for Suffixes

1.3.5Suffixes: '-ly'

1.3.6Suffixes: '-ation'

1.3.7Rules for Suffixes: '-ation'

1.3.8Spelling: '-tion' Endings

1.3.9Spelling: '-sion' Endings

1.3.10Spelling: '-ssion' Endings

1.3.11Spelling: '-cian' Endings

1.3.12End of Topic Test - Suffixes

2Writing

2.1Composition

2.1.1Effective Writing

2.1.2Planning

2.1.3Drafting

2.1.4Editing

2.1.5End of Topic Test - Writing Composition

2.2Conjunctions

2.2.1Simple Sentences & Compound Sentences

2.2.2Complex Sentences

2.2.3Coordinating Conjunctions

2.2.4Subordinating Conjunctions

2.2.5End of Topic Test - Conjunctions

2.3Present Perfect Tense

2.3.1Present Perfect Tense

2.3.2Uses of the Present Perfect Tense

2.4Nouns

2.4.1Using Nouns & Pronouns Properly

2.4.2End of Topic Test - Present Perfect & Nouns

2.5Fronted Adverbials

2.5.1Saying Where, When & How Often

2.5.2Saying How & Why

2.5.3Using Commas

2.6Direct Speech

2.6.1Direct Speech

2.6.2End of Topic Test - Fronted Adverbials & Speech

2.7Homophones

2.7.1Accept & Except

2.7.2Affect & Effect

2.7.3Ball & Bawl

2.7.4Berry & Bury

2.7.5Brake & Break

2.7.6Fair & Fare

2.7.7Grate & Great

2.7.8Groan & Grown

2.7.9Hear & Here

2.7.10Heal, Heel & He'll

2.7.11Knot & Not

2.7.12Mail & Male

2.7.13Main & Mane

2.7.14Meat & Meet

2.7.15Medal & Meddle

2.7.16Missed & Mist

2.7.17Peace & Piece

2.7.18Plain & Plane

2.7.19Rain & Reign & Rein

2.7.20Scene & Seen

2.7.21Weather & Whether

2.7.22Whose & Who's

2.7.23End of Topic Test - Homophones

2.8Spelling Rules

2.8.1Hard 'U' & 'I' Sounds

2.8.2Words Ending in '-Sure', '-Mure' & '-Sion'

2.8.3'Ei', 'Eigh' & 'Ey' Spellings

2.8.4Words Ending in 'G' & 'K' Sounds

2.8.5Spelling Words with 'Ch' & 'Sc'

2.8.6Silent Letters

2.8.7End of Topic Test - Spelling Rules

2.9Using Apostrophes

2.9.1Using Apostrophes with Regular Plurals

2.9.2Using Apostrophes with Irregular Plurals

2.10Using a Dictionary

2.10.1Using a Dictionary

2.10.2End of Topic Test - Apostrophes & Dictionaries

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End of Topic Test - Conjunctions

Uses of the Present Perfect Tense