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Understand and practice the present perfect tense in English and Spanish, combining helping verbs with past participles. Learn formation rules and irregular verbs to enhance language skills effectively.
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¿Qué es el presente perfecto? The present perfect is formed by combining a helping verb (“have” or “has”) with the past participle
Por ejemplo… • For example: • I have played tennis. • She has sung at weddings. • We have flown in a plane.
Para formar in inglés • To form the present participle we combine the helping verb “have/has” with a past participle • For example, “I have been a lifeguard.” • “I” is the subject • “have” is the helping verb • “been” is the past participle
Para formar en español • In Spanish we form the present participle by combining the present tense of the verb haber (the helping verb, or el verbo auxiliar)with a past participle • For example: • Yo he bailado. I have danced. • Nosotros no hemos estudiado para el examen. We haven’t studied for the test.
Remember… How to form the past participle: • For –ar verbs, take the stem of the verb and add –ado Example: comprar → comprado • For –er and –ir verbs, take the stem of the verb and add –ido Example: tener → tenido
Para formar… Here are the present perfect forms of estudiar:
Para formar… As you can see I have combined the present forms of haber (the helping verbs)
Now you try… On a sheet of paper, see if you can figure out the present perfect forms for the verb hablar:
Let’s try another… Now see if you can form the present perfect forms of the verb tomar:
Now let’s try an –er verb See if you can come up with the present perfect forms for comer:
Let’s try another one…see if you can come up with the present perfect tense of ir:
Many of you may have assumed that ir had an irregular past participle. Afterall, it does have an irregular present participle. But ir is actually regular in this tense. Here are some verbs that are irregular in the past participle:
Not exactly irregular but… -er and –ir verbs whose stems end in a vowel have past participles ending in –ído caer → caído creer → creído leer → leído oír → oído reír → reído traer → traído
Meet RevvMac who is a Phd • Roto (romper) Impreso (imprimir) • Escrito (escribir) s • Visto (ver) Puesto (poner) • Vuelto (volver) Hecho (hacer) Dicho (decir) • Muerto (morir) • Abierto (abrir) • Cubierto (cubrir)
HO-HO-HO Remember: all present perfect forms like Santa He comidO Has idO HemosandadO