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Verb Tense Exercise 5

Simple Past / Present Perfect

Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriatetenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers.

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1. ! id you like the mo#ie "$tar %ars&"

'! ( don)t know. ( *see, ne#er+ that mo#ie.

. $am *arri#e+ in $an iego a week ago.

-. y best friend and ( *know+ each other for o#er fifteen years. %e still

get together once a week.

/. $tinson is a fantastic writer. 0e *write+ ten #ery creati#e short stories

in the last year. ne day, he)ll be as famous as 0emingway.

2. ( *ha#e, not+ this much fun since ( *be+ a kid.

3. Things *change+ a great deal at Coltech, (nc. %hen we first

*start+ working here three years ago, the company *ha#e,


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only+ six employees. $ince then, we *expand+ to include

more than 444 full5time workers.

6. ( *tell+ him to stay on the path while he was hiking, but he

*wander+ off into the forest and *be+ bitten by a snake.

7. 8isten onna, ( don)t care if you *miss+ the bus this morning. 9ou

*be+ late to work too many times. 9ou are fired:

;. $am is from Colorado, which is hundreds of miles from the coast, so he *see,

ne#er+ the ocean. 0e should come with us to iami.

14. 0ow sad:


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=orth merica by co#ered wagon. The trip *be+ #ery rough and often

dangerous. Things *change+ a great deal in the last hundred and fifty

years. =ow you can fly from =ew 9ork to 8os ngeles in a matter of hours.

1. >onny, ( can)t belie#e how much you *change+ since the last time (

*see+ you. 9ou *grow+ at least a foot:

1-. This tree *be+ planted by the settlers who *found+ our

city o#er four hundred years ago.

1/. This mountain *be, ne#er+ climbed by anyone. $e#eral

mountaineers *try+ to reach the top, but nobody *succeed,

e#er+ . The climb is extremely difficult and many people

*die+ trying to reach the summit.

12. ( *#isit, ne#er+ frica, but ( *tra#el+ to $outh merica


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se#eral times. The last time ( *go+ to $outh merica, ( *#isit+

'ra?il and @eru. ( *spend+ two weeks in the ma?on, *hike+

for a week near achu @icchu, and *fly+ o#er the =a?ca 8ines.

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Verb Tense Exercise 6Simple Past / Present Perfect


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$ince computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1;74)s, technology

*change+ a great deal. The first computers *be+ simple

machines designed for basic tasks. They *ha#e, not+ much memory and

they *be, not+ #ery powerful. Aarly computers were often Buite

expensi#e and customers often *pay+ thousands of dollars for machines

which actually *do+ #ery little. ost computers *be+

separate, indi#idual machines used mostly as expensi#e typewriters or for playing

games.

Times *change+ . Computers *become+ powerful machines

with #ery practical applications. @rogrammers *create+ a large selection

of useful programs which do e#erything from teaching foreign languages to

bookkeeping. %e are still playing #ideo games, but today)s games

*become+ faster, more exciting interacti#e ad#entures. any computer

users *get, also+ on the (nternet and *begin+


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communicating with other computer users around the world. %e *start+

to create international communities online. (n short, the simple, indi#idual machines

of the past *e#ol#e+ into an international %orld %ide %eb of knowledge.

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Verb Tense Exercise 7

Present Perfect / Present Perfect ContinuousUsing the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate

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Robin:( think the waiter *forget+ us. %e *wait+ here for

o#er half an hour and nobody *take+ our order yet.

Michele:( think you)re right. 0e *walk+ by us at least twenty times. 0e

probably thinks we *order, already+ .

Robin:8ook at that couple o#er there, they *be, only+ here for fi#e or

ten minutes and they already ha#e their food.

Michele:0e must reali?e we *order, not+ yet: %e *sit+


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here for o#er half an hour staring at him.

Robin:( don)t know if he *notice, e#en+ us. 0e *run+

from table to table taking orders and ser#ing food.

Michele:That)s true, and he *look, not+ in our direction once.

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Verb Tense Exercise Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous


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1. >udy! 0ow long *be+ in Canada&

Claude! ( *study+ here for more than three years.

. ( *ha#e+ the same car for more than ten years. ()m thinking about

buying a new one.


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-. ( *lo#e+ chocolate since ( was a child. 9ou might e#en call me a

"chocoholic."

/. att and $arah *ha#e+ some difficulties in their relationship lately,

so they *go+ to a marriage counselor. ( hope they work e#erything out.

2. >ohn *work+ for the go#ernment since he graduated from 0ar#ard

Uni#ersity. Until recently, he *enoy+ his work, but now he is talking

about retiring.

3. 8ately, ( *think+ about changing my career because (

*become+ dissatisfied with the conditions at my company.

6. ( *see+ >udy for more than fi#e years and during that time (

*see+ many changes in her personality.'ottom of Form

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