What is the Present Perfect?
The present perfect connects the past to the present. We use it to talk about experiences and things that happened at some point in the past, when the exact time is not important.
Positive: subject + have / has + past participle
Negative: subject + haven't / hasn't + past participle
Question: Have / Has + subject + past participle?
Use have with I, you, we, they. Use has with he, she, it.
Positive Sentences
I have visited Paris.
She has eaten sushi before.
We have seen that film.
He has tried surfing.
Negative Sentences
I haven't been to Japan.
She hasn't tried Indian food.
They haven't seen that show.
Questions
Have you ever been to London?
Has she ever tried skiing?
Have they visited that museum?
Regular and Irregular Past Participles
Regular verbs add -ed (same as past simple). Irregular verbs have special forms.
visit → visited | try → tried | watch → watched
go → gone | see → seen | eat → eaten | be → been
do → done | have → had | ride → ridden | win → won
⚠ Common mistakes:
✗ I have went to Paris. → ✓ I have been to Paris.
✗ She has saw that film. → ✓ She has seen that film.
✗ He have eaten sushi. → ✓ He has eaten sushi.