Paco visits Scotland and Wales: Scotland and Scottish people
Introduction
In this topic, you are going to learn about the Present Perfect Simple in detail as well as typical words that go with this verb tense. You have already seen some rules in topic 1 but here you are going to consolidate and extend this knowledge. You are going to compare the Present Perfect Simple with the Past Simple, for example, because the use of these two tenses can cause some problems.
But don't worry. You'll have plenty of practice to overcome any difficulties you might find.
In the last section we will be looking at informal letters, with different formulas you can use to begin and end them. It's easy!Let's start!
Further knowledge
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Important
Remember in English we have REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS. What does this mean? In order to form the past simple or the past participle, regular verbs just add the suffix -ed. On the contrary, irregular verbs must be learned by heart because they don't follow any rules. You need to know them to form the Present Perfect Simple so here you have a list of irregular verbs in English.
Remember also how to form the Present Perfect Simple:
| S + HAVE/HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE (-ed for regular verbs/ 3rd column for irregular verbs) |