Then read on. AMONG the most common questions asked by readers of MOE’s Question and Answer section (June 2001 – Feb 2012) were questions to do with present and past perfect tenses in English.

You use the perfect tense when, in English, you would say that something has happened. So, if you wanted to say: ‘You have been to the hairdresser,' 'she has eaten all the biscuits’ or ...