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Help! Present Perfect and Past Perfect Hello! The present perfect and the past perfect are the same thing? Thanks.
9 nov. 2012 03:17
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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."
9 november 2012
I understand so much Present Perfect but Past Perfect......... lol haha
9 november 2012
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! :)
9 november 2012
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