- What is difference between present perfect and past simple?
- What is the difference between simple present and present perfect?
- How do you use past simple and past perfect?
- Where do we use past perfect and present perfect?
What is difference between present perfect and past simple?
Use the simple past when the action started in the past, finished in the past, and is not continuing now. Use the present perfect when the action started in the past and is continuing now. The simple past tells us that an action happened at a certain time in the past, and is not continuing anymore.
What is the difference between simple present and present perfect?
What Are Their Differences? While the two both talk about the present time, present simple tense tends to talk about routines while past perfect tense tends to talk about events and actions that have just been fulfilled.
How do you use past simple and past perfect?
These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple. For example: "I had already eaten my dinner when he called."
Where do we use past perfect and present perfect?
The present perfect is formed using the present tense of the verb "to have" and the past participle of the main verb. The past perfect tense says that an action was completed at a time before another action happened in the past.