Regular Verbs

We use the present perfect tense for life experiences (any time up to now) and events occuring at least once in the past.

For I, You, We and They we use have and the past participle (V3).

For He, She and It, we use has and the past participle (V3).

For regular verbs we usually add ed to the infinitive to form the past participle (V3):

Subject	HAVE	Past Participle (V3)
I	have	climbed	a mountain before.
You	have	played	chess before.
He	has	cooked	lobster before.
Tom	has	watched	a ballet before.
She	has	danced	on stage before.
Sara	has	painted	on canvas before.
It	has	snowed	here before.
The town	has	flooded	badly before.
We	have	travelled	across India before.
They	have	sailed	around the World before.
The children	have	walked	to school before.

Tip!
* The past participle (V3) is usually the same as the verb in the past simple (V2).

We add d to infinitives ending with e:

Infinitive	Past Participle
move	moved
love	loved
fade	faded
produce	produced
manufacture	manufactured

We change y to ied for words ending in y:

Infinitive	Past Participle
study	studied
carry	carried
try	tried

Tip!
* We keep y if the letter before is a vowel:
plaied ✘
played ✔
enjoied ✘
enjoyed ✔

Subject	HAVE	Past Participle
I	have	danced	on stage before.
I	have	studied	music before.

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