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Exercise 1 - Present Perfect
Choose the correct
present perfect
form or
adverb (phrase)
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1. Akira has been a carpenter for
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1998.
he finished school.
many years.
he was twenty-one years old.
2. I've been a reference librarian since
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three years.
1990.
a long time.
I've graduated from library school.
3. Suzanne and I have been best friends since
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two months.
we were in college.
almost twenty years.
always.
4. Have you been interested in game shows since you
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have become
became
have been becoming
become
a librarian?
5. I've been exercising for
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all morning
an hour
I got home from work
noon
, and I'm exhausted.
6. My family loves this house. We
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live
lived
were living
have lived
here since I was born.
7. Mrs. Reynolds has been our teacher since
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a few weeks.
January.
always.
two months.
8. Have you been studying the rules for the show
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as soon as
when
for
since
we called?
9. Laura's flight hasn't gotten in
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already.
yet.
It's late because of the bad weather.
10. Look! The flowers have bloomed
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already,
yet,
and spring hasn't even arrived.
11. I haven't done the laundry
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already.
yet.
I'm going to try to do it tonight.
12. Mario has been on a diet for two weeks, and he's
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yet
already
lost ten pounds.
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Exercise 1 - Present Perfect
