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Exercises Perfect Tenses

The document provides exercises to practice using perfect tenses in English, including present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous. For each section, learners are asked to put verbs in the correct tense form or choose between two tense options to complete sentences. The exercises cover a variety of situations involving time frames and durations to demonstrate appropriate uses of the perfect tenses.

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Exercises Perfect Tenses

The document provides exercises to practice using perfect tenses in English, including present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous. For each section, learners are asked to put verbs in the correct tense form or choose between two tense options to complete sentences. The exercises cover a variety of situations involving time frames and durations to demonstrate appropriate uses of the perfect tenses.

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EXERCISES (PERFECT TENSES)

I - Put the verbs into the correct form (Present Perfect Simple or Past Simple):

1. I _______have known_______ (know) him for 10 years.

2. She _____came_______ (come) here two days ago.

3. We _____were______ (be) in Australia last year.

4. My friend _____has just passed__________ (just / pass) his driving test.

5. _______have__ you __seen________ (see) your cousins recently?

II - Choose the correct form (Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous):

1. How much money has Jack spent / has Jack been spending in the casino?

2. How long has she sat / has she been sitting in the garden?

3. How many short messages have you been sending / have you sent this month?

4. Have you emptied / Have you been emptying the bin yet?

5. Lucy, have you been bathing / have you bathed your dolls? The bathroom floor is absolutely
wet.

III – Put the verbs into the correct form (Past Perfect Simple or Past Simple):

1. I _____had learned_________ (learn) that lesson well before I __went_______ (go) out last
night.

2. He ________had finished____ (finish) the report before he ___shut_______ (shut) down his
computer.

3. Why was he so tired? He ______played_____ (play) tennis for five hours.

4. The old lady thanked me for what I ___had done____________ (do) for her yesterday.

5. __Had____ you _____already seen__(already / see) the film before it __came____ (come) to
our cinemas?

IV – Choose the correct form (Past Perfect Simple or Past Perfect Continuous):

1. How long had you known / had you been knowing him before he asked you to marry him?
2. How many e-mails had you written / had you been writing before you went to sleep?
3. She had made / had been making a delicious cake before the party began.
4. We had been sitting / had sat in the garden for a long time before it started to rain.
5. He had been finding / had found his car keys before it was too late.

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