Monday, 19 March 2012

Present perfect or past simple

Present perfect or past simple | Johnny Grammar | Learn English | British Council

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We use the present perfect to talk about something in the past that is still true now. There is no mention of any definite time in the past:
I'm very nervous, I've never sung in public before.
He has sung in a concert.


We use the simple past to talk about events that happened at a definite time in the past:
When did you do the other concert?
He sang at the anniversary celebrations.


Remember if we say 'when' something happened we must use the simple past .

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