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How do you express the present perfect and past perfect tense of a verb?

Answer:

The present perfect tense.

This is used to express experience, change and a continuing situation. It follows this structure:
  • Subject + have/has + past participle.


 

Past Perfect Tense

This is used to express an action in the past before another action in the past. It follows this structure:
  • Subject + Had + Past Participle.
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