SIMPLE PAST or PRESENT PERFECT? When + how to use them!

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“I worked” or “I have worked”? “I went” or “I have gone”? What’s the difference? If you confuse the simple past and present perfect tenses, watch this lesson. You’ll learn how to use both tenses (the structure) and when to use them (the usage). You’ll understand which tense to use in terms of time, action, and signal words. Most importantly, you’ll upgrade your English by mastering these two important and commonly confused English tenses. Take the quiz on this lesson: www.engvid.com/simple-past-or...
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In this lesson:
0:00 Introduction
0:48 How to form the Simple Past
2:02 How to form the Present Perfect
5:10 What is the time frame?
9:28 Is the action completed?
13:24 Signal Words
17:57 Review

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@engvidJames 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, everyone! Make sure to check out more of my English grammar videos: 10 Types of Nouns kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mq9onM9q1tPeqpc.html How to use ALSO, TOO, AS WELL kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5qEoMqr1Li2omQ.html

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@artemvolkov5682 3 ай бұрын

After all a native speaker will ask you "did you have a chance to do ... ?" instead of "have you had a chance to do ...?" and you will be frustrated again

@matthieubaya6805 3 ай бұрын

For what it's worth,Being a native speaker doesn't mean always grammatically correct 😁

@fia0612 2 ай бұрын

It's the same in other languages, native speakers don't think about grammatically correct things, and I tell you because I speak Spanish, and I know that many things don't make sense

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Teacher James always takes clarity one step further... Many thanks 🙏🏻. Is good to have a refresh about all from time to time.

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@علووشي 9 күн бұрын

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@lucasoliveiralima8844 Ай бұрын

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@temultik 3 ай бұрын

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@L8rCloud 3 ай бұрын

What are the two tenses of "I was working"? 1 - Yesterday I was working WHEN SUDDENLY 2 - TWO YEARS AGO I was working on the Colgate campaign ....Thanks

@LoriSenDi 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much❤ i finally understand the difference, so comfortable and funny lesson☺️

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@discoveryoflife70 Ай бұрын

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@sacdiabdi7609 2 ай бұрын

I have not understood present prefect before, but after I listened for ten minutes. I had confirmed that i can separate the uses of both tenses.

@vitalyrybin5645 3 ай бұрын

I think in the past simple tense when we are dealing with a continuous in time action we have to use a "time container" instead of the exact time point, which contains the whole described action in it - from the action's beginning till its end. For example, when we use 'yesterday', we imply that the whole action described by a verb phrase - from its beginning till its end - lays inside 'yesterday'. More strictly the action started after yesterday had started and ended before yesterday's end. The action mentioned cannot start earlier - a day before yesterday - and cannot end after yesterday's ending (today). That means we are selecting a time period (instead of exact point in time) big enough to contain inside it the whole time period of an action's life. It's like putting smaller "action's time container" into a bigger "time container" - similar to the Russian 'matrioshka' toy principle. P.S. Even when we use time marker like 'five hours ago', we imply a "one hour time container" beginning in time point 'six hours ago' and ending in time point 'five hours ago'. P.P.S. When we are dealing in the past simple with instantaneous events - actions taking less than a few seconds like jumping, sneezing or shooting - we are talking about the exact point in time, as we treat such events not like 'time containers' having some time length of its life but rather as points in time with zero length in time.

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James, you made me laugh when you were talking about your company which cannot afford yellow markers. You said it in a lowered voice like to to share with a friend. Your lessons are fun! Tnank you!

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@EK-tb6ui 3 ай бұрын

At school they told me that "never" is used in Pres Simple, as "never" defines the scecific period - the whole past. Were they wrong?

@nasalisvagabond9039 2 ай бұрын

As a brazilian, I would like to say that there is no verbal tense equivalent to the Present Perfect in portuguese, so the idea of thinking about if an action is completed or not may sound weird for portuguese speakers. If you have made something in the past, the action is in the past and that is it. xD

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@hosrakkiham395 3 ай бұрын

We are not going into irregular verbs. Second verb "go". :)

@piotrowicki_7903 3 ай бұрын

What about past perfect could you explain it in the next episode?

@EnglishwithVahid1 2 ай бұрын

The past perfect tense shows that one action happened before another in the past. : Examples: I had eaten before he arrived. She had finished her homework when the phone rang.

@Brumkogl 3 ай бұрын

I have PP too

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@exea 2 ай бұрын

Justo ask " when" happened sonething. if You know it use past . If You don't know o not dure use presente perfect

@sirkiraamaabtidoon 3 ай бұрын

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@you2ber252 3 ай бұрын

Funny how a coniugation of verbs in the past, is called "present" perfect. And why "perfect"... what is so special about it to make it perfect? This has always been a mystery to me.

@ilyaswaree 3 ай бұрын

Maybe "perfect" here means complete? As they like to say that now it is completed?