Present Perfect Tense Grammar Exercise

Hi Birce, let's look at these sentences and see how to correctly use the present perfect tense.

The general structure for the present perfect combines have or has with the past participle, often called the V three form of the verb.

In the image, we see a first example sentence. It says: Yesterday Mehmet has broken his arm. However, there is a mistake here.

The word yesterday is a specific time marker for the past. We don't use the present perfect with specific past time indicators. Instead, we should use the simple past tense.

So, the correct way to say this is: Mehmet broke his arm yesterday. We use the simple past tense 'broke' because the time is finished.

Now let's look at the second sentence: She has gone to Paris.