D-13.07 Use the Present Perfect with Adverbs in Various Meanings

Unit 9: The Present Perfect (“Meeting People”) of the Original Scenario, Volume Three: English Grammar in Context, pages 102-116 15 pages Who It’s For: (Self-)Teachers & Helpers at Advancing Levels Wanting More Analysis of the Present Perfect, Including Modal-Verb Phrasing with Have + Past Participles Why It’s Useful: Grammar Units at different levels of elaboration, especially those on related topics within a series, have already covered the essentials—like Forms, Sentence Patterns, and Meanings of Present Perfect Verb Phrasing. After initial presentation, subsequent grammatical material has finally succeeded in exhibiting new and distinct organization and content. Meeting new people at parties, the “main characters” of this highly contextualized Advanced Unit 9 have used mostly Present Perfect structures (without Continuous forms) to get acquainted—by communicating about past Repeated Action, Activity with an Effect on the Present, Recently Completed or Unfulfilled Activity,