'I have been to Boston.'
Have/has + past participle makes the present perfect.
She has lost her bag.
They have taken a taxi
I have been to Australia
'Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4'
Here are the basics for using in, on, at, for and since in time expressions:
In - is used with parts of the day, months, seasons and years.
'I've got a new TV. You've seen it, haven't you?'
In spoken English and casual written English, contractions are very common. In these words the apostrophe ( ‘ ) tells us that letters are missing.
'The Pyramids were built a long time ago.'
Most of spoken English uses active speech. In active sentences the subject is the focus of the sentence. For example:
'I used to ski, but now I snowboard.'
'He was waiting for me when I got home.'
The past continuous (also known as the past progressive) is used to describe what we were doing a specific point in the past.
compare these two sentences:
'Fight / fought / fought'
Most English verbs take -ed for the past tense or past participle. The problem is that many verbs do not follow this rule. Here is a good list of irregular verbs for you to refer to.
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'Sandra picked an apple.'
The past simple tense is, of course, used to talk about things which have happened in the past. Here are a few points for you to review and rememeber
Past Simple is used to describe events which happened in the past.
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'I surf / I am surfing.'
What's the difference between the Present Simple / Present Continuous and how to use them.
If i won the lottery, I would...
In English we have four ways to make conditional (if) sentences. Here is how to make them...
0 Conditional – is used for scientific facts or general truths. ‘If’ can be substituted for ‘when’.
‘If you boil water to 100°C, it boils.’
