Present Perfect

Present Perfect Tense

The present perfect tense shows an action or condition that began in the past and continues into the present.

(1) To indicate completed activities in the immediate past (with just), for example:

• We have been to Canada. 

• We have played football on the ground.

  

(2) To express past actions whose time is not given and not definite. For example:

• Have you read “Gulliver’s Travels”?

• I have never known him to be angry. 

• Hari has been to Japan.