What are the signal words for using the present perfect? These words are used quite often with the present perfect. Just, yet, never, always, already, ever, so far, up to now, recently, since, for... - I haven't booked a holiday yet, as I am waiting for an update on Covid travel rules. - I have lived in this city for twenty years now. - I haven't been for a swim so far as I have been waiting fot the sea to warm up. Now you try making some sentences for yourself.