Question

What is the present perfect tense of the word “attend”?

Answer 1

Hint: Here the verb “attend” denotes listening, being present, or paying attention to something. The present perfect tense is used for an unspecified point in the past or that started in the past and proceeded to the present. Have/has + the past participle is the basic structure of this tense. But remember that we always need to find a past participle, then this tense is very easy to conjugate.

Complete answer:
Once we know the syntax of any tense, we can just find out the required terms for each part of the syntax to get the answer. Firstly we need to know what the formula for writing a present perfect tense is; then we can find the required parts.

Keep in mind that; ‘Have/has + the past participle’ is the basic structure to form this tense.
In the required tense, that is present perfect tense;
The first aspect will be based on the subject by which the verb gets conjugated, it has only two possibilities ’have’ or ‘has’. The second component is the verb's past participle, which is normally created by linking -ed or -d to just the verb's source, but there are some irregular or unconventional past participles in English.

For the subjects ‘he/she/it’, the prefix will be ‘has’, the other subjects take the prefix ‘have’.
The verb given or the base verb is ‘attend’, by conventional method if we append –ed to the end of the base verb we get ‘attended’ this is the required past participle for the verb ‘attend’.

Now that we have understood the formation, the general form for conjugating the verb ‘attend’ in its present perfect form will be;
 Have/has + attended
Examples look like this;
- Reya has attended the computer seminar. [Here ‘has attended’ make up the present perfect part]
- Jobin’s friends have attended the BOTB concert. [Here ‘have attended’ form the present perfect part]

Thus the correct answer is Have/has + attended

Note: When we have studied present perfect forms, it is good to know about past perfect forms also. Similar to that of the present perfect tense, had + [past participle] is the simple syntax used for the past perfect tense. The structure remains the same whether the subject would be singular or plural. For example; Jobin had sung for that competition. [Here ‘had sung’ is in the past perfect tense]