You Might Be Misusing the Present Perfect Tense!

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[@ticone83]

You haven't understood the use of the present perfect though. You are describing finished actions in the past, so you should have said: I was able to understand all you said. Past tense, not present perfect.

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@@ticone83 thank you

[@LeonardoFrotta]

Me either

[@felixbach379]

I have got them all right :-) I love the different tenses in English. In German that's one of the few easier things: when we speak, we use the Vergangenheit (the Perfekt, similar to the present perfect tense) and when we write, we use the Mitvergangenheit (the Präteritum, similar to the past tense). But this applies mainly to the south of Germany as well as to Austria and Switzerland. In the north the Mitvergangenheit is also used in spoken German.

[@georgidimitrov828]

I've been looking for a video of such kind for a long time! As someone who speaks English as a foreign language, I so often feel I get these two messed up, and I've hesitated which one is correct to use. Your examples are great! Thank you!

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[@ppalavichkoo]

That's what I've been trying to teach my students as well. You can't just rely on signal words to determine the correct tense, but you also need to dig deeper into the overall meaning of the sentence.

[@lewishendo9328]

6:45 as a native speaker I have a point to add to this, I find this one a little unusual. It‘s grammatically correct but I would never hear this in everyday speech. It would be more like „Well I went on a walk at 10 and then I cooked (something) at 3“ or „Well I went on a walk at 10, then I was doing some cooking at 3“ Sorry to be really confusing as I understand a lot of the words in those sentences add little to no meaning, but it just sounds more natural to us. The big takeaway I will say is the english love using well at the start of sentences, so if you want to sound more natural I would look out for that and try it :) Btw I‘m free for any questions, as well as if you want me to see if any of your sentences can sound more native

[@neffexkingdom7000]

How many words do you guys use around every day from 150000words

[@lewishendo9328]

@@neffexkingdom7000 I couldn‘t tell you a number obviously, but what I can tell you is the south of england is generally more posh, so they will use more advanced words, any in northern england it‘s more basic and slang. Each region does tend to have some slang associated too but don‘t worry if you don‘t understand because you can just ask. As a native I sometimes need to ask when I talk to somebody from a different region

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[@francomarini560]

Brilliant, Laura! I only got wrong "He didn't reply", but your explanation of " He hasn't replied" is very clear, thank you!

[@lewishendo9328]

On that one, if the same question was asked in the future it would be correct. E.g after the party if you wanted to know why they didn‘t come, you would say they didn‘t reply :)

[@roderickmain9697]

The thing this makes obvious to me is that I never learned about tenses growing up. Not one teacher ever explained tenses in English. Shame really as learning French now some of it would have made more sense if I'd known what I was using in English first. Hope everybody loves your kooky way of doing this because it made it fun.

[@gaiaarce1911]

As someone who’s trying to learn French as well, knowing this before would’ve been easier for sure (mind my 1st language is not English 😅)

[@lamya2718]

Thanks teacher Laura for teaching us the whole tenses of English. All your uploaded videos on KZbin I have always watched. I believe that I will have been improving my English in the near future. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and tips on how to become better in English as my second language. Keep doing and teaching so that we keep learning from your informative channel. Kudos, teacher!

[@marcelbpunkt]

Wohooo, got all of them right 🥳 But I admit I used to do this wrong all the time in the past (pun intended). In German, simple past and present perfect are more or less interchangable (or at least people use them any way they like :D). Good thing I went to night school and got my Abitur. Otherwise I might still struggle with it lol. My biggest help with learning present perfect was to check if I can add a "so far" to the end of the sentence. If it makes sense, it's present perfect. If not, it's probably simple past. And thank you for mentioning present perfect continuous. I was always wondering what's the difference between "have done" and "have been doing". Now I know 😊

[@martynjones8560]

Excellent lesson with clear explanations. One little suggestion though - when you put all the answer options on the screen, could you also put the question as a header above them?

[@lindenbeck]

What helps me to use the present perfect in a right way is using already, yet and just. Especially at work since I have to deal with non german merchants.

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I am very surprised: I got one question wrong. I thought I was going to fail more since I am not a native speaker and I have never taken English classes with any teacher. Everything I have learned has been in the media and literature: radio, television, internet, newspapers, magazines, books, etc. Thank you for your videos, they are very useful!

[@xiluvcoconutx]

It was such a fun way to test my ability to use past tenses! Did all right 😊 a small shot of confidence before my English exam next week.

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Only 1 mistake. Thank you Laura for fancy videos! I try to watch them from time to time. Hope to have more sessions with you! 🥰😊

[@redtankgirl5]

I loved this. Two wrong but a great time brushing up on what I had learned so many years ago in English class. What a good time I had. Thank you for your exuberance. Edit: subscribed bc I just want more of this.

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3:47 moving SWIFTLY on to the next question….. (Loudly for a while) … tabadabadabbadadada….. I haven’t seen such a swiftness…🤣🤣

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[@sebastian1200]

Hi, As far as I remember there is one case when if one refers to specific time like „morning”, „afternoon” can use Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous as long as the morning and afternoon is not finished yet, ex. „I’ve done my presentation this morning” (which means the morning is not finished yet) 😁.

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From the first second I turned on this video to watch, my eyes hurt from the beauty of this girl. Perhaps I should wear sunglasses? lol

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[@henrytran8771]

Thank you for the amazing lesson! Would you like please to make a tutorial about the difference between WOULD HAVE , SHOULD HAVE , MUST HAVE ,COULD HAVE ,MAY HAVE , MIGHT HAVE. There are some explanations on this subject, but I got them all confused because their uses are so similar. Thanks

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[@nikolaslarisaios5589]

I would answer B to both questions regarding Present Perfect. I have been taught that we use Present Perfect when we are we are more concerned if something happened or not. When I want to know when something happened, I use Simple Past. For example I would ask my children "have you done your homework?" since I want to know if they have studied or not. But if I wanted to know when they did their homework, I would ask "did you do your homework?".

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[@Haas888]

One tip I have for using Present Perfect like in the first example with Squid Game is: If you can use the "yet" on the end of the sentence and it sounds reasonable, feel free to use Present Perfect. Of course with the negative responses. Im not a native though and I might be wrong, that's just something that helped me remember when to use those

[@martynjones8560]

The problem here is that you get students saying "I didn't see it yet" (which even some native speakers use - almost to the point of sounding reasonable, although it's incorrect).

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Wow, I got all the questions right and that surprised me. I always thought I was bad at it. By the way, you're one of the best teachers I've seen.

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İts a pretty clear video i got it all. Could you make a video about the difference between present perfect and present perfect continous please

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[@syrik11]

Thank you for the video! I thought it was very easy untill I saw the question "Tell me about your day?". I chose the present simple option ))))) The rest was true.

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You make a clarity to present perfect tense. Ive been learned this tense, u just make it easy

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What a useful video! I think I'm the one who overuse the present perfect. Because in my mind when we don't mention an specific point in time we have to use the present perfect. I've been following lots of teachers on social media and I noticed there is one way American say things in the past and British say it in another one. Examples: American I did that. I took the kids to school. I ate my lunch. British I've done that. I've taken the kids to school I've eaten my lunch. When I see two natives speakers saying the same thing in a different way it really boggles my mind! It drives me crazy! Sometimes I get stuck when I'm trying to say things in the past, I'm like... Now should I use "I did that" or " I've done that". That sucks!!

[@kimgarlic]

Got only 3 right, even after living in the US for 20+ years! What a brilliant topic - something that's so obvious to native speakers while its frequent misusage by non-natives has not been articulated like this well? There are other topics which are so tricky to non-native speakers that I wish you could cover. 1) articles - a, an, the... and 2) prepositions... e.g. "something that's so obvious [to or for] the native speakers"..?

[@lewishendo9328]

Both to and for work in that sentence, however without the, so „Something that is so obvious to native speakers“ or „Something that is so obvious for native speakers“ Sorry I‘m not great at the reasons why we use these prepositions so I will save a response for somebody who can give better advice

[@sebastienlopezmassoni8107]

Thank a million Laura you're witty and brilliant.

[@xolang]

Love this lesson. Thank you! I'd guess most of the people who tend to overuse present perfect would be German, French, Romanian (and perhaps Italian) speakers since in those languages there's practically no difference in meaning better simple past and present perfect. PS: I swear I've heard native speakers saying "I've went to xyz".

[@justaname1837]

Yes, and Americans tend to overuse simple past.

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[@stanislok.7106]

I overuse it too as a Polish person. We've got three tenses by the way.

[@End-phoenix]

Portuguese speakers tend to use too much simple past

[@rosssa111]

As an Italian, I agree with you.

[@Nosajwu]

Thank you for your detailed and useful content in tenses.

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I got all of the answers correct, thank you for clear explanations!

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Thankyou so much!!

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Quite tricky these tasks, but I like something like that. Many thanks

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Highly interesting teacher going deep into the subject !

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I just watched this video and... Girl I love the way you explain 🥰🥰🥰 I got all questions right

[@bartoburrito6598]

I also recommend to look for English tenses tables, comparing these tenses with the ones in your own language, just to make a general impression. Otherwise, learning all English tenses from scratch might seem like an algorithm or chemical formulas. 🤓

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[@saiphenay]

Very clear explanation. Thank you very much

[@langovoy]

What a madhouse. I do not have time to thing which part of the past has been meant for every next moment. There is only one past tense in most of languages.

[@sergeyg436]

I'm a little confused. I was sure that the past continuous tense is supposed to be used when we talk about some process in the past. So that, I would say "I was walking at 10 and cooking at 3".

[@jamesedwards7906]

Use that tense when something else happened at the same time. eg. "I was walking at 10 o'clock when my phone rang" Or "I was running to the toilet when I shat myself!" "I got a bone-on when I was talking to a pretty girl earlier"

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[@petelobl]

Very entertaining video - I think the Vegas sweatshirt influenced your mood. Or perhaps the other way round. I live in Germany, and it’s fun to try and translate these sentences as Germans use p.p. somewhat differently. I guess I fear I will lose a little bit of my English abilities over time.. not sure which bits will go first. They haven’t escaped me quite yet, but it’s getting close.

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This is a unique kind of quize on tense sentense

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Thank you for this video. Now i understand how to use them.🤗

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So many interesting phrases! Thanks, great content

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[@russ1anasanov1ch49]

Good afternoon.Can you explain the word "Have" - what does it mean?How do you hear it?

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Thanks for the awesome lessons and you have beautiful London's accent.

[@helensimeoni8433]

You´re an amazing teacher! Thanks a lot for sharing this video.

[@juniormendes8412]

When you finally understand how to use the present perfect you want to use it every time.

[@arcanuke3294]

I don't know any of the rules but knew the phrases intuitively. The only one that puzzled me was the one about what you did at various times. I want to say 'I went walking at 10 and I cooked at 3'. It feels right so I assume it is but I'm not sure what I've done.

[@jamalbana5193]

First thank you very much for this video.i had many mistakes but I knew the difference between the past simple and the past perfect.greeting from jordan.

[@BaumerPaulGefreiter]

An eye-opener for me, thank you.

[@yuring8934]

Outstanding lesson !! Just one thing, could you give a little bit more time to think what the answer Is ? You're the best.

[@gallomphrattlebone329]

I've heard especially Americans use the present progressive instead of present perfect progressive a lot. Like in "I'm sitting in the garden all day long" instead of "I've been sitting in the garden all day long". What's your opinion on that?

[@jamesedwards7906]

"I'm sitting in the garden all day" sounds like an intention, a plan, an answer to the question "What are you doing today?"

[@crafty_prop]

Thanks, I'm not a native speaker but I do have a degree in applied language English for prof.comm, but I still struggle with basic grammar. Watching this kind of video do help a lot especially when I need to write stories. (Might just throw away my degree at this point.)

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Thank you, you are a wonderful teacher

[@ahmedkhalil946]

I liked your way for explain. I do appreciate your efforts

[@petermartis4319]

Can you also make a video where you will explain the defferences between present perfect and present perfect continuos?

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Quite difficult Laura! I don't know if I will efective in responding these questions under pressure!

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Thanks for the video

[@EmeryRain]

I didn't actually know what present perfect tense was but I managed to get these based off the vibes I got from each one.

[@kksunny7710]

Laura, your videos are lovely and really helpful! thank you so much!! by the way, i’ve got 6/6 for your little quiz, nevertheless i haven’t got used to this tense yet :( it definitely needs time to adjust to !

[@soyamor24k]

Excellent video! I have learned that when we specific time we use simple past. When we don’t specific time we use present perfect. Am I right?

[@IgorIglin]

It's perfect explanation! Even I understood everything! Thanks a lot!

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[@properbritishenglish]

Nice explanation! It's common for people to overuse this in Japan so I have to explain this a lot too!

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Coucou...So cute a way of teaching English...Hat off

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Wonderful lesson