Video lesson · Present Perfect

Action Which Starts in the Past and Goes On in the Present

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The action usually begins in the past and continues past the time of speaking in the present. Here we can often see so-called tense markers. Mind that they are not always reliable! ( lately, recently, for + period of time, all one's life, since + a point in time, all day/night/week etc ).

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