To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learningenglish@bbc.co.uk 1. We can use both present perfect and past ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard Imagine that verbs, nouns, and other parts of language are competing with each other. One verb form or noun might ...

A simple, no-frills poster to explain the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous including why it is used, how it is used in sentences and examples to demonstrate its use. Portrait and ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard In a recent report, we explored how the present perfect was playing in a kind of language competition. In today’s ...

Whether teaching or learning the present perfect, it is often useful to present the two verb aspects in a contrastive way. Compare the following: 'Dick Francis has been writing novels since 1957. In ...