https://mondoidioma.pages.dev/tags/present-perfect/Recent content in Present Perfect on Mondo IdiomaHugoit-ITFri, 23 Oct 2020 22:00:00 +0000https://mondoidioma.pages.dev/posts/past-simple-vs-present-perfect/Fri, 23 Oct 2020 22:00:00 +0000https://mondoidioma.pages.dev/posts/past-simple-vs-present-perfect/<ul> <li> <p><em><strong>Have</strong> you ever <strong>been</strong> to Tokyo? – Yes, I have.</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>When did you go? – I <strong>went</strong> there 2 years ago.</em></p> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://mondoidioma.pages.dev/images/posts/past-simple-vs-present-perfect/img-10.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://mondoidioma.pages.dev/images/posts/past-simple-vs-present-perfect/img-09.jpg"></a></p> <p>We use the <strong>present perfect</strong> (<em>I have been</em>) when we talk about a life experience and we don’t specify when it happened. On the other hand, we use the <strong>past simple</strong> (<em>I went</em>) when we talk about that specific past experience (and we often give a time reference, for example: yesterday, two weeks ago, last year…).</p>