Past Simple or Present Perfect?

English tenses can be confusing. In this lesson, you will learn a simple way to know when to use the past simple and present perfect tenses.

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[brentlaing]

Great job. Clear and concise. I'm discouraged from sharing this with my students though because I don't want them to get confused by the terminology -- usually the simple past tense is referred to as "simple past" instead of "past simple".

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[haraprasadsenapati]

Mam I enjoyed thoroughly watching your videos. But one recommendation from my side if you could number your videos in sequence it will be easier for us to watch in sequence

[NiviWord]

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[spyphyfarnsworth]

I don't understand that. I always thought that Perfect is finished time, because "perfect" literally means completed or finished.
"I've got some result" means I finished some work and I have its result by now.

[marcinlis]

Actually, l have one concern about the topic discussed in this video.

In British English, PP is used to describe finished actions in the past at unspecified time whereas PS is used to describe finished actions in the past at the specific time.

To describe unfinished actions that started in the past and still continue at the time of speaking we use Present Prefect Continues.

Can you please correct me if l'm wrong?

All the best.

Marcin

[sileanbarreiro]

TIME is an abstract concept, a representation that human beings make ir order to place things, moments, etc.However, when we talk about present, past and future, we use the word TENSES to refer to them.Both concepts are very different and any teacher of English knows this.

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[mhirtomas]

How if the question is continuing? For example. I have worked hard this coming Saturday? Is it mistakes?

[Volverus]

I constantly made mistakes in tenses though I learn language for a long time. And thanks to you at last I started understanding how it really works. I hope...)))

[TheHelifly]

Very good explained. My english teacher tried to explain it to me 3 hours long, but you explained it in 5min. and I unterdood it at once. THANK YOU A LOT!

[dragonv]

Thank you so much, now I'm cleared on this subject.

[sonezuki]

Mam I'm very confused about using the present indefinite, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous and past indefinite, past continuous, past perfect, perfect continuous and present future, past, future, present perfect continuous future and past perfect continuous and future perfect Future..please we guided mam. I need your help.thanks

[Speaktruth]

Sister Teacher, Please help us with a detailed video on Future Perfect tense and could you make a video on future perfect continuous tense as well - Subhojit from India, Kolkata