Exercise 8. True or False?
__ 1. You
usually use the present perfect with lately.
__ 2. With
so far and up to now, you must use the simple past.
__ 3. The
verb in the following sentence should be in simple past: She (verb) here since 1999.
__ 4. Over
the past three years and in the last five months are time expressions you
use with the present perfect if the time period continues to the present.
__ 5. You
can use the present perfect with ago.
__ 6. With
recently, you sometimes use the present perfect and sometimes the simple
past.
__ 7. With
before, you always use past tense.
1. true
2. false
3. false
4. true
5. false
6. true
7. false
Exercise 9. Fill
in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verb. Some might be negative.
a. (study)
Can you use the grammar that we have studied so far?
1. (come) I ________________ to this city seven years
ago.
2. (get) Over the last six months, his English
________________ much better, and now he can communicate quite well.
3. (see) I ________________ Mark lately. I wonder where he is.
4. (be) He ________________ absent since last
Thursday. He has been too busy to come
to class.
5. (have to) She was absent yesterday. She ________________ work, so she couldn’t
come.
6. a. (be)
What ________________ the weather like when I was gone?
b. It rained every day.
a. (go) Oh, really? It was beautiful in Hawaii .
I _____________ to the beach every day!
1. came
2. has gotten
3. haven't seen
4. has been
5. had to
6. was
went
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