• The present perfect simple is used to talk about recent events or actions that have just finished, or when you want to emphasize the action, not when it happened.

  E.g.: Mary has gone to England twice. (Here you are more interested in the action, being to England, than when it happened)

• The present perfect simple is also used to talk about a finished action which has some influence in the present.

  e.g.: I have lost my keys. (the action is finished, but it has an influence in the present because you can't open the door now)

• The present perfect simple is also used when the time reference you mention is not finished yet.

  e.g.: Today I have had an exam. (the exam is finished, but the period of time you're mentioning is not, so we need a verb tense which refers to the present and the past at the same time, that is the present perfect simple)

• There are several adverbials which help you identify the present perfect. Those are: already, ever, never, just, not yet, so far, till now, up to now.

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