Present Perfect Tense

Rumus:

subject

+

have

+

past participle (Kata Kerja Bentuk ke-3)

Perhatikan contoh berikut:

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I	have		seen	the movie.
+	You	have		eaten	my apple.
-	She	has	not	been	to England.
-	We	have	not	played	cards.
?	Have	you		finished?
?	Have	they		done	it?

Tense ini digunakan untuk:

• Pengalaman
• Perubahan
• Situasi Yang berkelanjutan

Perhatikan contoh-contoh kalimatnya berikut ini:

• We have never eaten pizza. (=I do not have any experience to eat pizza)
• John has broken his leg. (=yesterday John had a good leg)
• I have lived in Medan for 3 years.

For & Since dengan Present Perfect Tense

• Kita memakai for untuk membicarakan tentang sebuah periode waktu.
• Kita memakai since untuk membicarakan tentang titik (batas waktu) di masa lampau.

Perhatikan contoh-contoh berikut ini:

• I have been here for 10 minutes.
• I have been here since 4 o’clock.
• Ann hasn’t called me for 3 months.
• Margareth hasn’t called since March .
• He has worked in Los Angeles for a long time.
• He has worked in Alabama since he left school.