Advanced English Grammar: Perfect Tenses (For C2 Learners)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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To speak proficient English at a C2 level (IELTS 8.0+), you need to know more than just basic Present Perfect tense rules. You need to know all of the advanced ways in which English speakers use the Present Perfect and Past Perfect. This video teaches you 20 advanced English grammar rules and conventions for the Present and Past Perfect and other ways of expressing the past in English at a C1 English or C2 English level.
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Because I did not study English but I learned it by immersion, I could not explain the meaning clearly to anyone else, despite understanding them myself. Neither vould anyone in my household despite being native speakers. This is why most native speakers do not make good teachers, not at least if you want to pass an exam!
Your intensity and interest in teaching is amazing.only few teachers do it.❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 from India
I'm very grateful for your kind comment 🙂
Your ability to convey the essence of the issue without many words is simply amazing. Brevity is the soul of wit. Thank you.
That's very kind! Thanks for commenting 🙂
You are an excellent English teacher. Very clear. I love to watch once I saw.
I'm so pleased you enjoyed the video 😁
Good job. I appreciate this channel!
Thanks for letting me know! Best wishes Rupert
This is the most challenging tense for students to grasp in the Middle East.
I have a hard time making them fathom the concept.
However, there is only one way to get it right, which is to practice with communal examples from their own lives.
Ask students to think about the situations they go through where they can use it. In doing so, they somehow start grasping the essence of its usage.
Grammar about how to use 'has or have with verbs' is effortless for students; the problem arises when they start comparing it with the past as the time clause is used in both by modern writers.
I spent 20 years in England. (here the action is done)
I have lived for 20 years in England. ( done but relevant to the present)
I have lived/have been living in England in the past for 20 years ( this is too complex for students)
I think teaching grammar is useless in many ways; some students, I have observed, speak accurate English just by talking without knowing the rules and grammar. This works. I dunno how.
Your way of teaching is recommendable for teachers, but not, with due respect, for students.
Thank you for reading.
I agree with some of your points. In particular, I agree that it is so important to practice what you learn and to make it personal - using structures in situations that have personal relevance is vital to make meaningful progress. However, I do think that videos like this one have a purpose for students. I set up this channel to be a resource for students who are already fairly advanced in their English and want to reach an even higher level. For students like this, my videos are useful for filling gaps in their knowledge. With the perfect tenses, for instance, they will already know how to use the passive to some extent but they may be confused over one or two issues. That's why I make videos with so many points - I'm aiming at students who might know 15 of the points, but are confused about the other 5. But I agree, for a student who is completely new to the present perfect, a video like this needs to be used alongside other supporting materials which make the learning more individually relevant to the learner.
I would like to think these videos are useful for other teachers too - yes.
Thanks for commenting!
@@EnglishwithRupert I second what you mentioned about students or teachers. In fact, teachers are, too, students for good. In the Middle East, students are going abroad; namely, the UK that has opened the doors for online visas for only SAUDIS.
It's summer break here, and most students are in UK, for they think practicing English with an English speaking enviornemnt/household is way better than studying in the institutions by going through boring books and lethargic sessions in the classrooms.
Futhermore, online learning has a huge impact on the enrollment of new studetns in the Universities. Time is, certainly, changing where students are prone to methods which are beneficial and afforable according to their availability so that they could enjoy life-which is only for once. Thank you for reading.
@englishwithmuzammal3596 It's really good to chat with you - I can tell you understand the situation well! I'm actually teaching a group in the UK at the moment that contains a number of Saudis/Kuwaitis. They are really good students, and are picking up the language quickly! I am blessed with a class containing a range of nationalities, so I am able to give them extensive speaking practice, which I feel is one of their main needs. I would love to teach on UA-cam as I do in the classroom, but I'm finding that to be successful on UA-cam, everything needs to be fast, or people stop watching and the "algorithm" doesn't promote the video as much as it would otherwise. I hope my videos might be used as "self-study" or "extension" materials that teachers can offer their advanced level students after a class where the concepts are introduced. I, also, cannot stand bored students in my classes 🙂
@@EnglishwithRupert I share the same sentiments; with you, comparing notes with you seems to be a knowledge-enhancing experience. When a faction of students returned from the UK with their language learning certificates in English with high-rewarding titles, upon assessment, it occurred that their level of language was not tantamount to the blessed grades; whereas, one underdog group of students attained in IELTS band 8 only by self-studying, in one village of Bangladesh, whilst evidently demonstrates that place or teachers might never matter if someone is stoked about learning anything.
I posit this is the game of a mindset.
Thank you for reading.
Love from India ♥️ you are amazing.flawless explanation. Now I can take breath about those rules.i really appreciate your hard work 💕 you are gem.
I'm so pleased you've found this video useful! Best wishes Rupert 🙂
Impressive! I’ve never seen a person who can explain in such a simple way
Thanks Ann! I'm glad it all made sense to you :) Thanks for commenting!
Thanks ever so much for your time as well as your tremendous lessons.
You are quite a Gramarian !
It's lovely to receive your thanks! All the best, Rupert :)
You are a "Top Notch" english teacher.
That's very kind of you 🙂 thanks for commenting
Great explanation. Thank you. 🙏
I'm glad you found it useful 😀
Thank you. It is an excellent video!
Thanks Barbel! That's kind of you 🙂
Finally, I understand it better than before, dear Teacher. Thanks so much for the explanation. 🙏 12:13
That's great to hear! Thanks for commenting. Rupert 🙂
I really appreciate your hard work. That's very useful! ❤️😊🙏
Thank you! Have a great weekend 😀
You have given the gist of English in a short lecture. You have good experience about teaching students!
I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁
Thanks. I'm much impressed by your class
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Best wishes Rupert :)
Good evening Rupert. Thank you for yet another fantastic video. I have a few doubts that may please be clarified. Under the heading "9.PAST PERFECT PHRASES" They discussed the CEO.......... We discuss something or We discuss something with someone.I was unable to make sense of it. Is it "We discussed it with the CEO........
The second doubt is " Has been is someone who can't do something now like they did it when they were younger " Many non-native speakers(including me) tend to use young instead of younger.One may be under the misplaced impression that "young" itself is ok in the said context. Does the comparative form of the adjective convey the meaning of the hidden phrase "than they are now"?
Sorry, Is it "They discussed it with the CEO......................
Hi! Good questions.
1) In hindsight, this wasn't the clearest example. It is possible to say "They discussed + someone" if that person is the main topic of conversation, but it's not particularly common and your idea is far more likely to be used in real life English, to be honest.
2. "Younger" in this context simply means "younger than now" (s comparative). It is normal to omit "than now" in the phrase "when I was + comparative"
@@EnglishwithRupert Thank you very much Rupert for clarifying my doubts 🙏
Thanks
You are very welcome 😁
N 6 inversion.
Little mistake there, it's been written * starting instead started*
WELL SPOTTED :) You are absolutely right! When I teach in a classroom, I can simply rub the word off the whiteboard and write the correction in its place. Unfortunately, mistakes on UA-cam stay mistakes forever... ;)
Thank you sir 😊
It's a pleasure 😁
Hi again,
You could not please tell us if those 2 sentences mean the same thing, could you?
I was eating when the phone rang
I had been when the phone rang.
Any difference between them two?
Possibly yes, possibly no! They have the same meaning in that the eating happened immediately before the phone rang. However, "I had been eating" could also refer to a period of eating which had finished a short while before the phone rang (although recent enough to feel as if it were connected to the next event), whereas "I was eating" can only mean an interrupted activity in this context.
I heard a native speaker say something like that :
'This material has been copywritered in 2007'.
Is it grammatically correct?
Shouldn't it be 'was' instead of 'has been'?
Hi Dee! In terms of traditional grammar rules, you are correct. However, there appears to be a movement, particularly in journalism, towards occasionally combining the present perfect and the past simple in one sentence. I think it comes from a simplification of the pattern where you introduce something with the present perfect in one sentence, and then add the details with the past simple in the next (for instance: "The material has been copyrighted. This was done in 2007.") - maybe, to save space or to get the readers to the facts more quickly, some people are now combining the introduction and extra details into one quick sentence, so we quickly get the sense of "this happened in the past" along with "this is when" in quick succession. I'd suggest this usage is still uncommon, but something to watch in the coming years! Best wishes Rupert :)
@@EnglishwithRupert Thank you! This is most helpful. I've never heard this explained before. Your videos are great. Keep up the good work!
Hi, in the part 18:21, Can I say 1)"After you seeing the show, you must leave by the left exit.
Or
2) After you having seen the show, you must leave by the left exit. I think these are incorrect.
Both 1) and 2) have slight errors. You could possibly say "After, you must leave by the left exit", but it would be very unusual to insert an information clause after "you". Let me know if you'd like further clarification.
Doing the work/Having done the work/after doing the work/After Having done the work,I go home.sir,do they carry the same meaning?please explain as they make me confused.
There are some slight differences. In "Doing the work, I went home", "doing" would refer to an activity in progress at the same time as going home. "After doing the work" means this is the activity before "I went home". The options with "having" are similar to this, but there's a sense of cause/effect - perhaps the work needed to be done before the person could go home, or perhaps it was logical to go home after finishing the work - we'd need more context to know precisely, but the word "having" here suggests a stronger link than just saying "after" without "having".