


It is done and doesn’t have to be done again I have eaten ie I’m not hungry now and don’t need to eat any more I have arrived in Nouméa ie I’m in Nouméa now.

(a) I have done, I have eaten, I have arrived: this particular form with ‘have’ suggests that the action in the past tense continues to have consequences in the present: I have done it i.e. However, there are some variations of meaning with in these three forms of the “pass é -compos é ” : In general, we say that th is past tense is used to talk about an action that has taken place only once in the past. To arrive = I have arrived, I did arrive, I arrived In English, th is past tense “pass é -compos é ” can be translated in to three forms: When to use it and what is its equivalence in English:
