The Present Perfect: Connecting Past and Present
What the present perfect is
The present perfect is formed with have/has + the past participle (the -ed form) of the verb, and it refers to events in the past that connect to the present. This is the key idea: the present perfect builds a bridge between something that happened before now and the moment you are speaking.
The formula is simple:
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