Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Present Perfect Quiz

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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