A2Present perfect12 min

Present perfect with ever and never

Talk about life experiences with have or has and a past participle, and ask questions with ever.

We use the present perfect to talk about experiences in our life up to now, when we don't say exactly when they happened. The form is have or has + past participle.

Subject	Positive	Negative	Question
I / you / we / they	I've been to Egypt.	We haven't tried octopus.	Have they ever seen snow?
he / she / it	She's visited Peru.	He hasn't ridden a horse.	Has he ever flown in a plane?

Past participles

For regular verbs, the past participle is the same as the past simple: visit → visited. Many common verbs are irregular.

Verb	Past simple	Past participle
be	was / were	been
do	did	done
eat	ate	eaten
see	saw	seen
write	wrote	written
fly	flew	flown
ride	rode	ridden
swim	swam	swum
run	ran	run
meet	met	met

Ever and never

Ever means at any time in your life. We use it mostly in questions. Never means not at any time. Both words go between have or has and the past participle. To talk about visiting a place, we usually say been to: I've been to Rome means I went there and came back.

Have you ever eaten Korean food? Yes, I have.
Jamal has never been on a plane.
I've never seen the sea.
Has Lena ever won a prize? No, she hasn't.
We've visited three different countries.

Source

Original lesson by Joy English.

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