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GRAMMAR FOCUS: Present Perfect Tense vs. Past Tense

Present Perfect Tense VS Past tense

Examples taken from the audios:

What countries have you traveled to? While I was there, I lived in a small city

called Caceres
I have been to quite a few different I lived with a Spanish family and my Spanish

countries mom cooked delicious meals every day for
lunch
When to use present perfect tense and past tense correctly

We use present perfect when we talk about an We use past tense when we talk about an
action in the past, but we don’t specify the action in the past, and we specify the time.
time. For example, two hours ago, yesterday, this
morning, last year, and etc.

A. Read the following sentences carefully and study their structure. Is there any error in it? Make the
correction for the incorrect ones.

Incorrect 1. I have had sausages for lunch at half past one before visiting the second

destination of the trip.
2. They have been in Thailand two times, and they also have visited Malaysia

once.
3. She has enjoyed herself at the party last night after having a tiring long land

trip.
4. My mother has been in New York last year for a business trip with her

secretary.

5. I have read that book about trips for preparing an oversea trip last night but I
didn’t like it so much.
6. Tom has left Yogyakarta a week ago before visiting Surabaya as his second stop

in Indonesia.
7. My cousins and their friends have stayed in Dublin since two weeks ago to fully

enjoy its beauty.
8. We have worked hard for a year and a half to have our honey moon in Japan

right after our wedding next year.

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