“Present perfect”
The present perfect is used in English to narrate events that have already occurred in an unspecified time in the past, and may or may not be continuing into the present.
Caracteristica:
Subject +have/has+ past participle+ complement
Example:
· I have eaten an apple. Me he comido una manzana
“Past simple”
Past Simple - (Simple Past Tense)
Simple Past tense is used to describe actions that happened at an earlier time and have already completed, for example:
She Cleaned her house. She cleaned his house.
I broke the window. I broke the window.
Here is the conjugation in Spanish equivalent to the Past Indefinite.Notice that the sentence structure is similar to the Simple Present:
anto in the negative interrogative form as is used as auxiliary DID isthe past form of the verb "TO DO" and accompanies the main verb in its infinitive form. Negations can be used in the contracted form ofDID NOT or DID. In the top box uses the verb To Play (Play) as an example.
Expressing a sentence in Past Simple means that the action is unrelated to the present, as shown in the following cases:
I lost the keys. He lost the keys.
(Perhaps in this the've found).
She lent me a book. She lent me a book.
(You might already have returned it).
It is also possible to indicate the time when the action is to indicate the time more accurately:
They saw the movie last night. They saw the movie last night.
We went to London yesterday. We went to London yesterday.
The past simple and present perfect (although it is called present)are past tenses. Their differences are as follows:
1) The simple past has started and finished in the past
I went to the cinema on Saturday night
2) The present perfect is related to the present, for examplehappened in the past but its consequences still remain (a) is very recent past (b), or is a life experience (c):
a) She has broken her leg
b) They Have Come to the school
c) I have never eaten insects
NOTE: Expressions of time are often a good way to know if you have to use the present perfect or past simple. Remember that they are expressions of present perfect (just, Already, yet, for, since, in the last, recently, etc.) and past simple expressions (... ago, last, yesterday, etc)
Simple Past tense is used to describe actions that happened at an earlier time and have already completed, for example:
She Cleaned her house. She cleaned his house.
I broke the window. I broke the window.
Here is the conjugation in Spanish equivalent to the Past Indefinite.Notice that the sentence structure is similar to the Simple Present:
anto in the negative interrogative form as is used as auxiliary DID isthe past form of the verb "TO DO" and accompanies the main verb in its infinitive form. Negations can be used in the contracted form ofDID NOT or DID. In the top box uses the verb To Play (Play) as an example.
Expressing a sentence in Past Simple means that the action is unrelated to the present, as shown in the following cases:
I lost the keys. He lost the keys.
(Perhaps in this the've found).
She lent me a book. She lent me a book.
(You might already have returned it).
It is also possible to indicate the time when the action is to indicate the time more accurately:
They saw the movie last night. They saw the movie last night.
We went to London yesterday. We went to London yesterday.
The past simple and present perfect (although it is called present)are past tenses. Their differences are as follows:
1) The simple past has started and finished in the past
I went to the cinema on Saturday night
2) The present perfect is related to the present, for examplehappened in the past but its consequences still remain (a) is very recent past (b), or is a life experience (c):
a) She has broken her leg
b) They Have Come to the school
c) I have never eaten insects
NOTE: Expressions of time are often a good way to know if you have to use the present perfect or past simple. Remember that they are expressions of present perfect (just, Already, yet, for, since, in the last, recently, etc.) and past simple expressions (... ago, last, yesterday, etc)
"Conversation:"
Bety: hi marco, have you ever been in united states?
Marco: yes, I have
Bety: and what did you do there?
Marco: I have gone to Disneyland and I went to the mall. Have you ever been in Durango ?
Bety: yes I have
Marco: what did you eat ?
Bety: I have eaten peach. Have you ever try tasteless ?
Marco: no I haven’t. have you ever broken bone trot ?
Bety: no I never broken bone trot. Have you been in a hospital ?
Marco: yes I have. Have you ever driven a car ?
Bety: no I have never driven a car. And you ?
Marco: yes I have. Have you ever listened to music of shakira ?
Bety: yes I have sometime listened to music of shakira
Marco: good bye bety
Bety: good bye marco
