INFINITIVE IS EASY

Complete the sentence!

How can I use the present tense _____ about the past in English? It doesn’t make any sense!

• talk

• talking

• to talk

The present perfect and the simple past both refer to events that already happened and are now in the past.

Yes or No, to events is an infinitive?

• YES

• NO

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Well, I’m here _____ you that when I first learned these English tenses, I had the same problem.

• tell

• to tell

• telling

Complete the sentence!

So in this post, I’m going to _____ the differences between the present perfect and the simple past in a very simple way.

• explaining

• explain

• to explain

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The past simple (also called the simple past), as the name suggests, is the tense we use _____ about any action or event that has already happened.

• talking

• talk

• to talk

Moreover, we use this tense when we know the exact or specific details of the time of the event (such as yesterday, the previous winter, last year, five hours ago and so on). In other words, the event is already over and finished.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• NO IDEA

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We may also use this tense when we want _____ on telling people about the action.

• to focus

• focus

• focusing

If you’re still confused, no worries. This point will become clearer once we get to present perfect.

Yes or No, to present perfect is an infinitive?

• YES

• NO

Complete the sentence!

_____, we use the simple past to refer to an event or an action that took place in “finished time” or to simply focus on talking about the action itself.

• To sum up

• Summing up

• Sum up

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Here’s the tricky part.

Yes, the present perfect is one of the forms of the present tense. But we normally use it _____ about events that have already happened.

• to talk

• talking

• have talked