Help! Present Perfect and Past Perfect
Hello! The present perfect and the past perfect are the same thing? Thanks.
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No, they are not.
Present perfect is used to express something that happened at some unspecified time in the past.
"I have ridden a horse."
It is also used to describe some experience or some change.
"She has traveled a lot." - experience
"He has grown." - change
Past perfect is used to describe some event A that happened before and/or up to the same time as B.
"She had been sewing when the phone rang."
"They had been swimming when the storm approached."
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I understand so much Present Perfect but Past Perfect......... lol haha
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Think of it more like "We had already been there two hours when she arrived." versus "We have been here two hours." It is probably a difficult distinction for a non-native to learn, but it's also kind of an advanced topic, and not one that you should feel as if you must master immediately to converse succesfully in English! :)
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