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Hi guys, today we're going to be talking about the present perfect.

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We use the present perfect to talk about unfinished actions that started in the past and continue into the present.

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For example, I have lived in Madrid for four years.

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This is something that started four years ago, but it's still happening now in the present.

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So we use the present perfect.

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The next one says, we use the present perfect to talk about our experiences in a way that doesn't say when it happened.

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For example, she has never been to Paris.

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So, in this example, we're talking about an experience that some girl has had in the past, but we don't know when exactly it happened.

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So, we use the present perfect.

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Now, how do we form the present perfect?

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Well, first we start with our subject.

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I, you, they, we, she, he, and it.

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and then to form the present perfect we have to add have or has so for the subjects i you they

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and we we add have and then we add the past participle and if you look over here we have a

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small chart of regular verbs the past simple and then the past participle to help you

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so for example I plus have and then we can choose a verb here I have lost my passport for example

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but now if we look at she he and it we use has instead of have so I could say she has gone

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to Paris, for example. So let's look at these three examples here. The first one says she has

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eaten her cookie. Now we know that we're using the present perfect because we have the subject

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plus has, and we use has because it's she, he, or it, and then eaten, which is the past participle

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of eat and we don't know when she ate her cookie we just know that she ate it which is why we use

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the present perfect. The next example says we have seen that movie. Here we have our present perfect

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have seen and we use have because the subject is we and if it's we we use have and then the past

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participle is seen which is the past participle of to see. And the last example says it has been

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raining for three days. So our subject here is it and because it's it we use has and then been

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is the past participle of the verb to be.

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So, it has been raining for three days.

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This is something that started three days ago in the past,

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but it's still happening.

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So, that's why we use the present perfect.