PRESENT PERFECT &PAST SIMPLE

By now, you should know how we form the past simple and the present perfect... but when do we use them?

In conclusion, the past simple is used to describe finished time periods, and the present perfect is used to describe unfinished time periods.

What tense do you relate these time expressions with?

yesterday, two days ago, last week, when I was a child, in 2009

always, in the last two years, all my life, ever, for ten years, since 1995

PAST SIMPLE

PRESENT PERFECT

They saw (see) me at the train station yesterday.

He’s always enjoyed (enjoy) football.

You came (come) to London with me a year ago.

We’ve seen (see) him play football a lot in the last month.

The best book I’ve ever read (read) is Don Quijote.

She finished (finish) her English homework at eight o’clock.

saw

came’s

enjoyed

’ve seen

’ve

readfinished

Complete the sentences with the present perfect and past simple affirmative form of the verbs in brackets.

Grammar Present perfect and past simple