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  • Hi, my name is Ronnie today

  • By special request I'm to teach you some grammar

  • Yeah, yeah um a lot of people um

  • Comment "thank you", and ask me Ronnie, what's

  • Present perfect, what's past

  • Perfect what's Pp? Wha, where am I? How did I get here? So I'm here to help you

  • Teach you this so you can learn it forever. It's very easy once you get it first of all so

  • present perfect

  • [Vs.] past perfect

  • all of

  • The tenses in English when you have something that's perfect it means you have to use the past participle

  • of the verb now as

  • An English teacher I don't like having to write

  • past participle

  • because it takes it a long time and it's hard to say really quickly, so

  • Most people shorten it to [Pp]. Not I have to pee pee different okay, so when I write on the board

  • [Pp]. It means the past participle

  • the past participle it's hard to say, of the verb is the third part of the verb so for example if

  • you have the verb

  • have

  • What is the past participle of have?

  • No, no, no no had oh yeah

  • Good so had is the past participle of have

  • perfect, so

  • Let's start off

  • present perfect we use for

  • Events in the past I know it's confusing because it says right here present perfect, but both of these

  • grammars

  • Grammars both of these tenses we use to talk [about] a past event so present perfect is

  • have

  • or has

  • plus the past participle

  • if it is I, they, you, and we. We have if it is he, she, or it

  • you have to use has

  • This is the number one mistake that

  • Students make when they're writing or speaking a lot of people say

  • She have which is wrong you have to be careful. You can remember he ,she, it. He, she, it, he shit

  • is has

  • okay, I, they, you ,and we is have plus the past participle

  • So I've asked you. What is the past tense of have?

  • answer, had

  • so if you know that the present tense

  • is have plus p p

  • You're Gonna go oh, oh. Yeah, okay. Hold on

  • the past tense of

  • have

  • Is had so when we use past perfect?

  • we're all we're changing is this verb to had

  • It's that easy

  • so

  • the other very easy thing about past perfect is

  • We don't have to change it for he, she, or it. yay

  • There's nothing to really remember about the past perfect except for it's had so I

  • He, she, it, they, we, and you . We all use had

  • fun times um

  • when we use the negative

  • It's the same idea except we're using hadn't so I, he, she, it, they, we, you

  • hadn't it's

  • unusual to say had not

  • If you want to use had not it's um to more emphasize things like I had not done that

  • but we usually say hadn't

  • Okay, and again

  • Because it is perfect you have to use the past participle or the PP of the verb

  • Is this easy now? so present perfect have plus the past participle

  • past perfect had plus the past participle

  • good let's go into the negative of

  • present perfect

  • when we use I, they, you, and we. We have to use haven't

  • just like in the present or in the positive and

  • again he, she, and it we have to use hasn't plus the past participle if

  • you want to make a question in the present perfect you're going to say have or

  • has

  • Then you're going to use the subject so in this case these are the subjects has he

  • plus the past participle has he

  • Eaten is a present perfect sentence

  • You can change he to a person's name. I can say has Kevin

  • eaten because Kevin is a he I have to use has. So remember that as well as

  • important

  • when we use past perfect

  • Like I said, it's the same idea we don't have to change

  • This reflecting on the subject. The question form we don't have to try and change either so it's had

  • Plus your subject

  • plus your past participle, and you must

  • Have a question mark if you do not have a question mark at the end of the sentence

  • It's just wrong and your teacher goes wrong

  • and you don't understand why because you remember has and have but

  • Don't forget the question mark alright

  • so I hope that you can remember how to use or how to sorry how to make present perfect and

  • Past perfect if you have any questions, or comments about this please

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Hi, my name is Ronnie today

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