Saturday, September 6, 2008

Perfect tense

I would like to show that how the perfect tense use in grammar.

Present perfect I have done

Ong is looking for his key.He can't find it.
'Ong has lost his key.' have/has lost = present perfect simple

I/We/They/You have done
He/she/it has been


Past perfect

For example ; Christy went to night club last night.Steve went to the night club too but they didn't see each other.Steve went home at 11.30 and Christy arrived at 12.00.

When Christy arrived at the night club,Steve wasn't there.He had gone home.
Past perfect simple = had + past participle (gone/seen/finished)
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/grammar/tense/2.1.xml

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