Friday 26 August 2011

Grammar : Present Perfect Tense & Past Perfect Tense


what??more rules to be remember??
calm down..it is for the sake of our destiny..so..have fun learning BEL..

Present Perfect Tense

J to show an action took place in the past. The time of the action is unknown.

E.g : The student has received a favourable reply from the science boarding school.

J to show an action which started in the past, but its effect has continued until the present and probably continue to the future.

E.g : The consultant has trained many successful businessmen.

J repeated actions in the past.

E.g : I have regularly participated in the Malaysian Halal Exhibition for the past five years.

Time expression that is regularly used with present perfect tense:
Ø  Since
Ø  For
Ø  Yet
Ø  Already
Ø  Just
Ø  Until now
Ø  Up to now
Ø  Ever
Ø  Never
Ø  Still

Clue:
Has/Have + Past Participle


Past Perfect Tense

F past perfect tense is used to show a past action which occurred before another past action.

E.g : The society had prepared the report before the student left for a academic seminar.
        After the manager had read the report, the secretary walked into his room.

The time expression used with the past perfect tense are :
v  Before
v  After
v  As soon as
v  By the time

Clue to easy remember :
Had + Past Participle of the Verb


at last..we finished already
..now..what we have to is to revise all the thing that ever taught to us..yaa..tomorrow we will sit for our grammar test..
pray for our success


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