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present perfect angļu valodā:

1. past perfect past perfect


Use regret + gerund, if only + past perfect or wish + past perfect to say we want something in the past to have been different.

Angļu vārds "present perfect"(past perfect) notiek komplektos:

Mowa zależna angielski
Reported speech

2. before before


Death before dishonor!
The fact that Britain had no national anthem before 1745 is in itself of little consequence.
Before long, the moon came out.
I told you before that you should ask your mother first.
Before Tom met Mary, he never seemed to be happy.
She had been in the hospital for a week before her husband came back.
Many parents think it's important for their children to eat before 8:00 p.m.
Before you can love others, you need to be able to love yourself.
Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.
He had not been employed by the company two years before his linguistic abilities were recognized.
It was very cold, and then before long, on top of that, it began to rain.
I'll leave a key with my next-door neighbour in case you get here before I do.
Before going to study in Paris, I must brush up on my French.
I met Tom before I graduated from high school, but didn't meet Mary until many years later.
It's very unlikely that we will release a new album before next winter.

Angļu vārds "present perfect"(before) notiek komplektos:

Match time expressions with present perfect or pas...

3. since I started this school since I started this school



4. until now until now


I didn't know that until now
I didn't know that until now.

5. in my life in my life



6. recently recently


Prices dropped recently.
Until quite recently, people in developed countries didn't care much about the environment.
I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.
More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.
More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
Recently, what with this and that, I haven't been able to sing so today I sang like there's no tomorrow!
George was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught recently after fighting it for three hours.
I went to the dentist recently and he did a cast of my teeth and took an X-ray, 'just in case.' It sounds like a good business to be in.
That you should be stalking Hanako! You'd been quiet recently so I'd let my guard down.
Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".
Many people suffer from heart disease in Japan, but in Libya those having heart attacks have also increased a lot recently.
Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.
Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.

7. for many years for many years



8. yet yet


Haven't you decided yet?
The prisoners would have to go through yet one more hardship.
When he came to Tokyo for the first time, this college had not been opened yet.
No sooner is one lie out of your mouth than you're telling yet another.
It was cold last night, yet he didn't wear a coat.
You will yet regret it.
Eventually I'd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet.
If you have not yet paid this bill, please let us hear from you.
This time I hadn't converted my money yet, so I needed to change Yen into Yuan.
I am not sure yet if I will go to a university or get a job.
I might have done well on yesterday's test, but I do not know the results yet.
Do you think this jelly's firm enough to eat yet?
If you haven't driven a bike yet, you should give it a shot.
The point of true mutual understanding has not yet been reached between Japan and China.
Everything around him was blown to pieces, yet he escaped without a scratch.

9. ever ever


He hardly ever works.
As far as I know, no one has ever done it.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.
No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.
Unless you started learning English as a child, you're unlikely to ever sound like a native speaker.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Didn't it ever occur to them that they would be punished?
If you ever do anything to hurt Tom, I'll kill you.
The best cookies I've ever eaten are the ones that your mother baked for me.
Though grammatically there is nothing wrong with this sentence, I doubt if anyone would actually ever use it.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Regardless of how much he drank, he seems as sober as ever.
After winning the Nobel prize, she remained as modest as ever.

10. already already


They're already here.
Tom bought a camera just a couple of days ago, but he's already lost it.
It has already been sixty years since our school was founded.
This road should have already been completed according to the original plan.
My guests have only been here since yesterday, but they've already eaten me out of house and home.
There is nothing you can do that I haven't already done to myself.
Apparently, Tom was already famous before he released that album.
Preparations are already under way for the Olympic Games.
It already faced a strong fight against the European Allies.
In fact, the sea has already risen 10 centimeters since the beginning of this century.
Unfortunately she already has a steady boyfriend.
She's already rich even though she's only 26 years old.
A considerable amount of time and effort have been spent already.
He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.
You're covering the same ground. We already talked about this.

11. just just


He just left.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?
A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.
Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.
The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.
He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.
Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.
Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.
Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.
I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.
I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.
He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.
I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.
If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."