
D-13.06 Use the Present Perfect in Statements, Questions & Answers, Learn Past Participles & Add Present Perfect Continuous Sentences
Unit 14: The Present Perfect (“Complaints”) of the Original Scenario, Volume Two: English Grammar in Context, pages 175-194, 237 21 pages Who It’s For: (Self-)Teachers & Helpers at Intermediate & Advancing Proficiency Levels Who Want “All There Is to Know” about Present Perfect (Continuous) Forms + Participial Verb Vocabulary, with Their Sentence Patterns, Meanings, & Functions Why It’s Useful: Even when fully contextualized, Grammar-Text Units from earlier times tended to “put it all down in black & white” in linear sequence. Unit 14 of Scenario, Volume Two starts with a presentation of “Complaints” in printed business letters. In order, it offers pedagogy and practice in uses of The Present Perfect: Statements, Questions, Short Answers; Past Participle Forms; Activity at Unspecified Past Times; the Present Perfect Continuous; and Activity Up to the Present Time. Download and try it. Material like this has worked in the (distant & recent) past and has been ac