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The present perfect describes an action that began in the past as is still occuring.
I was sick. (Past tense. But you are no longer sick.)
I have been sick. (Present perfect. You got sick a while ago
and are still sick.
I had been sick (Past perfect. You were sick over a period of time and are
no longer sick.)
Note that in the past perfect, the sickness occurred over a period of time but ENDED in the past. In the present perfect, the sickness is still going on.
Consider this time line:
________A_______B_____Now_____...
Past tense might be A. It is a single point in time.
present perfect: I have been sick. Between B and Now
past perfect: I had been sick. Between A and B
The verb to be:
present perfect: I have been, you have been, he has been, etc.
Ex: They have been sick for some time. (They got sick some time ago, and they are still sick.)
past perfect: I had been, you had been, he had been, etcl.
She had been sick last week, but now she's better.
The verb to have:
present perfect: I have had, you have had, he has had, etc.
Ex: I have had a cold now for five weeks. (I still have a cold.)
past perfect: I had had, you had had, he had had.
Ex: I had had a cold, but now I don't.
The verb to go:
present perfect: I have gone, you have gone, he has gone
past perfect: I had gone, you had gone, he had gone.
Notice that in the present perfect, the auxilary HAVE is used along with the participle.
HAVE is an auxilary.
GONE is a participle.
not looking back , not looking too much in the future, present is just right now..
Present perfect is kinda like here and now. It means that you are presently living in your perfect life, loving every moment. But at the same time, it can vanish and never return. So live it to it's fullest!
is going
has gone
have eaten
the first part is in the present tense; the second part is one of those words about what has happened.
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