Hello and welcome to six minute grammar with me, Katherine and Me.

Neil.

Hello Today we're talking about the present perfect on the past.

Simple tenses.

Yes, we're going to tell you how to form them and give you three rules to help you decide which one to use and when.

We'll also look at using ever and never with the present Perfect.

And we'll finish with a quiz right then.

Let's start with the present perfect aunt.

Here's our first example.

I've looked at the sales figures they've shot up by 20% so it's subject plus have or has plus a past participle to make past participles of regular verbs.

Ad e.

D to the main verb.

So look becomes looked.

But some verbs, like Shoot, are irregular.

The past participle of shoot is shot.

You just have to learn your irregular verbs.

That's right.

On Dhe.

We often use short forms in the present, perfect like I've he's on, they've now.

Here's an example of the past.

Simple.

I looked at the sales figures this morning.

They shot up by 20% last month for the past simple of regular verbs ad e d to the main verb.

So look becomes looked.

But don't forget those irregular verbs.

The past simple of go is went now it's often difficult to know which tends to use.

It can be.

So we've got some rules for you.

Listen to the first example again.

I've looked at the sales figures they've shot up by 20% and its present perfect here because we're focusing on what happened.

Not when, but in the second example, I looked at the sales figures this morning.

They shot up by 20% last month.

It's the past simple because we say when the actions happened.

So that's Rule one.

Use the president perfect to say what happened but the past simple for when or where something happened.

That's right Now near just a minute, because I actually I haven't eaten this morning on.

That's an example of the present perfect with a time phrase.

So sometimes we can use the present perfect to say when something happened when a situation started in the past and is still true or still happening.

Now he got his a biscuit because you haven't eaten anything this morning.

I haven't But if I said I didn't eat anything this morning with the past simple, it would mean it isn't morning anymore.

Now it's the afternoon or the evening.

Yes.

The action started and finished in the past.

You must be starving.

Goddamn you!

Go have another Thanks.

Thank you very much.

So that's rule too.

Use the present.

Perfect for events that started in the past and our continuing now and the past.

Simple for actions that started and finished in the past.

Nice biscuits, Neil six from BBC learning english dot com on We're talking about when to use that present perfect and the past Simple.

Now we often use the present perfect with ever and never for life experiences things we've done at some point in the past.

Here's a question for you, Catherine.

Okay.

Have you ever eaten insects?

I'm funnily enough near No, I've never eaten an insect and I don't think I ever will.

How about you?

Oh, yes.

Actually, I have the view in sex.

Yes, I've, er I've eaten aunt that were given to me by a friend from Colombia.

Very good.

So Rule Three use ever with the present perfect to ask about a past experience on Dhe, never to talk about an experience you haven't had.

But if you add information about time and place, used the past Simple i et insects last summer in Colombia and nearly use present.

Perfect in.

I have eatem insects because he was focusing on the event itself, not when it happened.

Well, actually, I wasn't focusing on anything.

I kept my eyes shut the whole time.

Didn't look very nice, right?

But they did, but they tasted all right.

Face it.

OK, it's now time for a quiz, Which is correct.

Number one.

Hey, I've bean for a job interview last week.

We'll be I went for a job interview last week, and it's B.

I went for a job interview last week.

Used the past simple When you say when something happened.

Number two.

I never went for a job interview or B.

I have never been for a job interview, and it's B.

I have never bean for a job interview.

We use a present perfect with Never and the last one a who has eaten all my biscuits or the who ej all my biscuits.

And that's a trick question because Actually, both are correct.

And by the way, Neil, it wasn't made.

I didn't eat all that means we have now come to the end of our program.