PRESENT PERFECT

SPANISH POSITION
EVER Alguna vez…? INTERROGATIVE Have you EVER met a famous? Have/Has + subject + EVER + past participle
NEVER Nunca AFFIRMATIVE I have NEVER met a famous
JUST Acabar de … AFFIRMATIVE I have JUST had my breakfast Subject + have/has +NEVER + past participle
ALREADY Ya AFFIRMATIVE She has ALREADY seen the movie JUST
ALREADY
YET Aun no / Todavia INTERROGATIVE Have you travelled to London YET? At the end of the sentence
NEGATIVE I haven’t read the book YET
STILL Aun no / todavia NEGATIVE I STILL haven’t read the book Subject + STILL + have/has + past participle
FOR Durante I have lived in London FOR five years FOR + period of time
She has been married FOR 12 years
SINCE Desde I have lived in London SINCE 2009 SINCE + specific time in the past
She hasn’t travelled to Rome SINCE she had the baby

PRESENT PERFECT PAST SIMPLE

For /Since / Just / Already / Ever / Never Expresses a specific time where the action began and ended in
For actions in the past, at an unspecified time, that the past.
have a result in the present or have a connection in
the present; it may or may not have occurred in the It snowed yesterday.
past; the activity may be repeated before now. In 2004, I moved

Jim has already eaten lunch

I have worked here for 10 years
She has eaten at that restaurant twice.
Have you ever driven across Canada?