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4. Apply:
Past Tense: _____________________________________________________
Present Perfect Tense: ____________________________________________
5. File:
Past Tense: _____________________________________________________
Present Perfect Tense: ____________________________________________

Vocabulary: Past Tense and Present Perfect Tense Time Markers

Check the following time markers/ adverbs of time for past tense.

Past Tense Time Markers Present Perfect Tense Time Markers
• Last + time (week/ month/ year) For
The family visited the patient last week. The familiy of the patient has been here for six hours.

• In + the year Since
In 2020, I conducted my first in-service We have known Nurse Gaga since 2020.
training.
Just
• Time (weeks/ months/ years) + ago Two patients have just arrived to the operating room.
I had a clinical practice in that hospital months
ago. Already
The patients have already been given the first
Common ones treatment.
• Today
• Yesterday Yet
• This morning The patient family has not arrived yet.
• This afternoon
Before
We had an emergency this morning. The first patient has used opioid before.

Still
The patient still has not been awaken.

Ever/ Never
He has never been hospitalized.

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