Present Perfect — Introduction and Verb Forms
Understand the time relationship and choose the required verb form.
Introduction
Connect a past action with a result, experience, or period that reaches up to now.
When and why
Recent completion: She has just arrived.
Present result: Someone has broken the glass.
Experience: Have you ever ridden a horse? I have never skied.
Up to now: I have read five books this year.
Already/just before V3: I have already eaten.
Yet often ends a negative/question: Has she arrived yet?
For + duration: He has worked here for five years.
Since + starting point: He has lived in Delhi since 2019.
Repeated actions: She has called three times today.
Unfinished period: We have learned a lot this week.
Formula
Subject + have/has + V3
Required verb form
V3 — I/you/we/they → have; he/she/it/singular → has.
Examples
Cindy has finished her homework.
Cindy has not gone shopping yet.
Remember irregular V3
eat → eaten; break → broken; write → written; go → gone; take → taken; see → seen; drink → drunk; do → done; make → made; buy → bought; find → found; lose → lost; speak → spoken; begin → begun; give → given; drive → driven. Use the linked Verb Trainer while writing.
Ask WH questions in this tense
WH + have/has + subject + V3 ...?
What has Riya written?
How long have they lived here?
Choose what, where, when, why, which, whose or how for the information needed. How many asks about countable quantities; how much about amounts; how often about frequency; how long about duration. A subject question can keep normal order: Who works here? Do not add do just because a WH word appears.
Find and correct errors
Read the context, identify the verb phrase and check the required form. Try the correction activities below. A wrong attempt gives a hint; stronger hints follow, and an example is available only on request after repeated attempts.
Learn this tense, then use it
- Introduction, concept and use
- Formula and required verb form
- Positive and negative sentences
- Yes/no and WH questions
- Uses and time expressions
- Common mistakes and correction practice below
- MCQ practice, picture sentences and scenario writing
- Guided paragraph and topic test
Read the existing lessons for each part
Formula: Subject + have/has + V3
Verb form: V3
Use this rule: write and correct
Try first. Hints become more specific after each attempt. Your attempts and corrections are saved with your existing writing progress.
A quick check
A wrong answer is a chance to learn. Use the hint and try again.