![]() ![]() If you no longer buy bread there, you would say "I bought bread at the same store for ten years but then I realised that the artisan bakery round the corner sells much better bread so now I buy it there". The present perfect is used there to indicate that you still buy bread at the same store you have bought it at for the last ten years. Most teachers would probably tell you to take a little personal responsibility and send you on your way. Nothing like blaming your mother for your own failures. For example, "I have bought bread at the same shop for ten years". Thanks to all the liars out there, this homework excuse is well and truly ruined. Common homework assignments may include required reading, a writing or typing project, mathematical exercises to be completed, information to be reviewed before a test, or other skills to be practiced. What carry-over Maybe the kind suggested in the next paragraph. The first indicates that the task was done, but there is some carry-over into the present. As a rule, the second indicates the task is done completely in the past. Here, the verb 'completed' sits in its past participle form along with an auxiliary verb 'was'. Both indicate you did your homework and both are fine. After converting it to passive voice, it becomes- 'My homework was completed yesterday.' After converting the sentence, the subject 'I' becomes the object and the object 'my homework' becomes the subject. However, sometimes the present perfect is used with something which looks like a time marker. Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the classroom. The following sentence is in active voice. I lived in Madrid from February 2009 until August 2010. We use the simple past usually with a time marker and the present perfect when the time period is unspecified or unimportant. Note that in the continuous, there would be something after the relevant form of "finish".īoth the simple past and the present perfect are used to describe an event which happened in the past and which is now over. ( Past perfect continuous) Note that in the continuous, there would be something after the relevant form of 'finish'. ( Present perfect continuous) I had been finishing. It's called the "present perfect" because it includes the word "have" which is the present tense of the verb "have". ( Simple past continuous) I have been finishing. ![]()
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