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Updated: April 2004


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Present Perfect Present Perfect Tense - Already and Yet

Already means that something happened earlier than we expected. With Present Perfect already usually goes after have or has and before the main verb.

Examples

   - We've already had our breakfast.

   - When are you going to do your homework?
   - But I've already done it!

   - Do you want a cup of coffee?
   - No, thanks. I've already had one."

Yet means that something that we expected has happened or hasn't happened. We usually put it at the end of a sentence.

Examples

   - Has the post arrived yet?

   - Have you done your homework?
   - Not yet.

   - Haven't you got ready yet? Look at the time!


Present Perfect Already and Yet with Present Perfect Tense - Practice

Exercise. Do we use for or since with the following time references?

  • I haven't phoned home Christmas.
  • We've been here nine o'clock.
  • I have worked for International House more than eight years.
  • I haven't visited my home town I left school.
  • I haven't been to the cinema ages.
  • I have studied non-stop 9.15.
  • I have had a driving licence I was eighteen.
  • She hasn't had a day off 1999.
  • Johan has been in England more than two weeks now.
  • Peter has been my best friend we were nine.


Present Perfect Already and Yet with Present Perfect Tense - More Practice

Exercise. Decide if you need for or since with these time expressions.

 
    last weekend  
    ten seconds  
    Christmas Eve  
    a decade  
    I finished school  
    a couple of days  
    my birthday  
    a long time  
    ten centuries  
    the 70s  
    I was a boy  
    August  
    the last month  
    fifteen years  
    the accident  
    then  
    we bought this house  
    last month  
    a millennium  
    I met you  
 


Learn how to use 'for' and 'since' with the Present Perfect Tense


Present Perfect Tense - When to use  Present Perfect Tense - How to form  Present Perfect Tense - Already and Yet  Present Perfect Tense - For and Since  Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses

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