1. Use these prompts to write Present perfect sentences using the adverbs in brackets. You may need to add
some words. The first exercise has been done for you as an example.
a) William / buy / tickets / for / match. (already)
William has already bought the tickets for the match.
b) Sally / not find / job/? (yet)
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c) We / be/ to Wien / four times (already)
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d) I / not buy/ new car (yet)
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e) David / arrive / from London (yet)
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f) Dorothy / see / a Star Wars film (never)
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2. Complete these sentences using
for
or
since
.
a) Mark has had violin lessons ________ last January.
b) We have known Diane ________ two years.
c) Have you seen Andrew ________ last week?
d) Karen has had long hair ________ she was 13.
e) They have been close friends ________ twenty years.
f) My parents and I lived in the same house ________ 1990.
3. Put the verbs into the correct tense
-
Simple Past or Pres
ent Perfect.
a) Whose car ___________(he/ drive) yesterday?
b) What ___________ (just / happen)?
c) He ___________(hear) a strange noise for a time.
d) ___________ /( the film/ not begin) only ten minutes ago?
e) My mother ___________(do) some gardening last summer.
f) They ___________(not eat) anything since breakfast time.
g) The concert ___________(be) an enormous success for more than 15 years.
h) They ___________(destroy) some animal species recently.
i) Mr Field ___________(telephone) her just a minute ago.
j) Thos organization ___________(recycle) paper for a moth but last year they ___________ (not do)
anything of the kind.
