![]() ![]() Just = recently: “I have just finished my homework”Īlready = happened sooner than expected: “I have already finished my homework”. However, we can indicate the time between the two actions by using time expressions. For example, “I have eaten breakfast at 7am” would be incorrect. One important thing to remember is when using the Perfect tense, we don’t use specific time expressions to indicate when the action happened. Present Perfect: I have done my homework – I’ve done my homework.įuture Perfect: I will have done my homework – I’ll have done my homework. Past Perfect: I had done my homework – I’d done my homework. In spoken English we often abbreviate or shorten the auxiliary verb ‘have’. We use the Present Perfect to indicate this connection. Now this past action is connected to the present as watching the movie last Friday is affecting your decision now. However, if someone then asked, “Do you want to watch the new Batman movie?” You may answer, “No thanks. This is a standalone action with no relation to the present. If we take the sentence, “I saw the new Batman movie last Friday”, the past tense is used to indicate an action which happened in the past and the time expression points to the exact point.
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