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- Perfect Tenses
- Both Spanish and English have perfect tenses to refer to past actions, events, and conditions
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Auxilary verb
Both languages use them
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In English, aux verb is
Have
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In Spanish, aux verb is
Haber
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_____ is never used as aux, _____ is.
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Aux is followed by
Past participle
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Present perfect refers to
Past event, action, or condition that has some relation to the present
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So to form present perfect it is:
Present tense of Haber + past participle
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Present tense of Haber (aux verb)
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Past participle of main verb
-ar
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-er/-ir past participle
-ido
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In English, past participles end in
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If stem of verb ends in vowel then
Add accent to i of -ido
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Some -er/-ir verbs that are irregular
Hacer, Poner, Ver, decir, abrir, romper, volver, escribir, cubrir, morir
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Object and Reflexive verb go
Before aux verb (haber)
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_____ goes between Haber and past participle
Nothing
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Present perfect of hay is:
Ha Habido
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Something Just Happened!
Present tense of acabar + de + infinitive
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A state or condition resulting from past action:
Estar (conjugated) + past participle
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Example of a state or condition resulting from past action:
- Esta' preparada
- Esta'n cerrados
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If past participle used as an adjective
It agrees with noun it modifies
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Examples of past part as adj
- Una puerta cerrada: a closed door
- Los restaurantes abiertos: a opened restaurant
- Unas botellas lavadas: some washed dishes
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