# Present Perfect or Simple Past: Rules and Examples | SwaVid

Present perfect or simple past: If a finished past time is named, use the simple past. Rules, examples and a free quick check for Class 6 to 12.

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# Present perfect or simple past: rules and examples

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Short answer. If a finished past time is named, use the simple past. If the time runs up to now, or no time is named and the result matters now, use the present perfect: has or have plus V3.

1 . Choose the right verb. Kavya ___ her grandparents in Goa last December.

If a finished past time is named, use the simple past. If the time runs up to now, or no time is named and the result matters now, use the present perfect: has or have plus V3.

Finished time named: simple past. Up to now: has or have plus V3.

Up-to-now words. Since, for, so far, ever, never, twice in my life and the first time count up to now. They take the present perfect.

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- Finished-time words . Yesterday, ago, last week, in 2019 and when name a finished time. They take the simple past. A question with when also takes did.
- Up-to-now words . Since, for, so far, ever, never, twice in my life and the first time count up to now. They take the present perfect.
- A result you can see now . When no time is named and the result shows now, use has or have plus V3.
- Finished time named: simple past. Up to now: has or have plus V3.

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