The past tense is similar to the present perfect tense

in this video I'll show you how the past-tense is similar to the present perfect tense let's begin with a verb B in this sentence she's been to Florida here's the verb be in the present perfect tense when was she there here's the verb be in the past tense in answer to this question she was there 10 years ago and this is also in the past tense the verb be in the past tense is was or were depending on the subject and the past participle is been so when you make the present perfect tense she has been to Florida or she was there two years ago both sentences mean about the same thing they're both expressing some past action this isn't the present perfect it does not say when she went to Florida or she was in Florida and this isn't a past tense and it does say when she was there she was there two years ago the verb get in the past tense is got I got here two hours ago or I have been here before two hours so this indicates when I when I arrived this tells you when something happened and this sentence here expresses the length of time how long have I been here I have been here for two hours so on a time line this is now and if it's 11 o'clock right now then this is nine o'clock I have been here for two hours I got here two hours ago this is when I arrived you he's had breakfast this is a present perfect tense but it doesn't say when he had breakfast and in this sentence using the past tense you can say when he ate he ate before he left or if you want to give an exact time you could say he ate at seven o'clock but with the present perfect tense you could not say he's had breakfast at seven o'clock the movie has ended this is in the present perfect tense and the sentence does not tell you when it ended when did it and this question is in the past tense here's the helping verb and here's the main verb in the simple form and the answer to the question would be it ended at six o'clock this verb is in the past tense notice that this verb is a regular verb and it's in the past tense and this verb also regular verb the same as this one but this is in the form of the past participle regular verbs in the past tense look the same in the form of the past participle or in the past tense in the simple form of the verb is end the past tense is ended and the past participle is also ended the movie ended at six o'clock the movie has ended they've done their homework here's the verb do in the present perfect tense and here's the verb do in the past tense they did it tonight this tells you when they did their homework the class has already started here's the present perfect tense using already which is very commonly used with the present perfect tense and then here's the past tense it started 15 minutes ago I've made some cookies here's the present perfect tense I made them earlier today this is the past tense these sentences use the verb go so in this sentence use the present perfect tense and in this sentence use the past tense in this sentence she has gone shopping there's no indication of when she went but in this sentence here she went an hour ago

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Keywords: present, perfect, tense, Past Tense, Present Perfect

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Length: 6min 54sec (414 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 23 2012