the difference between "Have you finished your homework" and "Did you finish your homework"?

 What is the difference between "Have you finished your homework" and "Did you finish your homework"?

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Jaigobin Shivcharran

Former English Teacher at New York City Department of Education (1995–2011)Author has 1.6K answers and 5.5M answer views3y

First of all, we have two different tenses here. Whereas “Have you finished your homework?” is in the present perfect tense, “Did you finish your homework?” is in the simple past tense (preterite). Each of these two tenses performs a task during a specific time.. As it is, whereas the present perfect tense deals with a situation that is still going on or has just finished, the past tense (preterite) deals with a situation is past. In other words, the past tense refers to a “done” deal. Let us look, now, at these two interrogative sentences.

Have you finished your homework?/ Have you finished yo