This ESL grammar lesson teaches students about the basic construction for sentences in the present perfect tense. Students then practice identifying and correcting errors in various present perfect tense sentences.
ESL Grammar: Understanding the Present Perfect Tense
The present perfect tense is used to describe actions that:
- Have occurred at an unspecified time in the past and have relevance to the present.
- Started in the past and continue into the present.
- Have recently been completed with effects felt now.
The English grammar lesson below introduces the grammatical structure of the present perfect tense in a clear and simple manner that is easy for ESL learners to understand. Our series of ESL grammar lessons on subjects and verbs introduce these concepts and reinforce them through helpful and instructive exercises.
This lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more English grammar lessons focusing on advanced aspects of English grammar (past continuous tense, present perfect tense, present perfect continuous tense, passive voice, embedded questions, relative clauses) in our comprehensive, intermediate- to advanced-level ESL grammar textbook Great, Great Grammar! (Book 3: Tenses and More!).
