G'day mate, what are you up to? Today, I'm going to be touching on one of the key grammatical structures, which is Present Perfect. The use of this structure is for everything that's associated with your immediate past event. Without further ado, let's get underway, shall we?
Present Perfect is one of the most versatile grammatical structures in English as you can relate the immediate past event to the present situation in both conversation and written works such as your diary or journal. You can communicate with people using only simple past tense, but the use of Present Perfect can provide you more nuanced expressions and situations that you want to tell somebody. For instance, when you want to say something like dropping your wallet from your pocket now or immediate past, you could say 'Oh my gosh, I've just dropped my wallet from my pocket.' Everyone could potentially understand you even if you said 'I dropped my wallet from my pocket.' Probably, after you said like this, your listener would ask you 'When did you drop it? ' So, it doesn't really matter, but the more accurate your grammar, the better and smoother your conversation will be.
Present Perfect is not that difficult to get used to. Your immediate past event has been continuously running or has completed, but this event is still associated with now. Because you're not talking about old stories, using both Past Perfect and Past Simple/Continuous are not quite right in this context or grammatical sense, right? You've got your grammar right. If you want to talk about old stories, then you should use either Past Simple/Continuous or Past Perfect, depending upon circumstances and contexts. The best way to get accustomed to this fairly complex grammatical structure is to understand the basic structure, and swap the words inside the structure to make sure that you use this structure for making sentences every time when you're talking to someone or yourself. Without practice, it's almost impossible for anyone to be able to use this for both spoken and written works confidently.
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