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• We use the Present Perfect Simple for giving news about
something that happened a short time ago, but we don't Now, what seems to be the problem?
say exactly when. How long have you been feeling like this?
World leaders have met to discuss the global economy Do you know if you're allergic to anything?
A new report on the environment has just been published. What have you eaten recently?
Come back if you're not feeling better in two days.
• We make the Present Perfect Simple active with:
Have you been taking anything for them?
I/you/we/they+ 've, have or haven't + past participle
Have you got any other symptoms?
he/she/it + 's, has or hasn't + past participle
Right, let me have a look at you.
The UK has failed to meet its targets. I'm just going to take your temperature.
We haven't met our targets yet. Here's a prescription for some painkillers.
• We make the Present Perfect Simple passive with:
I/you/we/they + 've, have or haven't + been + past m What patients say 90 p76
participle
I'm not feeling very well.
he/she/it + 's, has or hasn't + been + past participle
I haven't been fe·eling very well recently.
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At least forty people have been arrested. I've got a terrible stomach ache.
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Some of the items still haven't been examined. My chest hurts.
• We often use passive verb forms in radio and TV news I keep getting really bad he·adaches.
reports and newspaper articles. I can't stop sneezing.
I'm allergic to penicillin.
• When we say the exact time something happened, we must
Do I ne·ed some antibiotics?
use the Past Simple active or passive: Gareth Jones found • • •
How often should I take them?
the treasure five days ago. • • • •
Do I need to make another appointment?
JUST, YET, ALREADY, STILL
• We use I keep ... and I can't stop ... for things that happen
• We use just to say something happened a short time ago. lots of times. We don't want these things to happen.
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We put just after the auxiliary: The ministers have just had a
meeting. A new report has just been published. • After I keep ... and I can't stop ... we use verb+ing: I keep
waking up at night. I can't stop sneezing.
• We use yet to say something hasn't happened, but we
think it will happen in the future. We put yet at the end of the TIPS• We can use -ache to talk about a pain in your head,
sentence or clause: We haven't met our targets yet. Why tooth, stomach, back or ear (headache, toothache, stomach
haven't we heard anything from the government yet? ache, backache, earache): I've got a terrible headache.
• We use already to say something happened some time in • For other parts of the body, we use My ... hurts: My knee
the past, maybe sooner than we expected. We put already hurts. not I've got kneeache.
after the auxiliary: Experts have already examined most of the • We can also say I've got a pain in my ... : I've got a pain
items. C0 has already been reduced by 2.7%. in my knee.
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• We use still to say something started in the past and
continues in the present. We put still before the auxiliary:
Some of the items still haven't been examined.
TIPS • We don't use just or already in negative sentences:
I've just seen him. not I haven'tjust seen him.; The meeting has
already finished. not The meeting hasn't already finished.

• We don't use yet in positive sentences: She hasn't told him
yet. Has she told him yet? but not She's told him yet.

• We only use still in negative sentences with the Present
Perfect Simple: Some of the items still haven't been examined.
not Some of the items still have been ())(amined.

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