Present Perfect Tense
English: Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum, topic 2.3.1
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.
I watched
You watched
He/she/it watched
We watched
You (plural) watched
They watched
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.
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...
I have watched
You have watched
He/she/it has watched
We have watched
You (plural) have watched
They have watched
Test yourself on Present Perfect Tense
What is the past tense of 'I use'?
Which suffix do we add to the end of 'work' to make it past tense?
What word do we need to add to form the present perfect tense?
__I ______________ always loved cricket.What is the name of the tense we use to talk about things that have happened more than once in the past and might still happen?
What is the name of the tense we use to talk about things that have happened at an unknown time in the past (e.g. we have been there before)?