Ex.118. Put the verbs into Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous

Ex. 117. Fill in the correct form (Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous).

Ex. 116. Put the verbs into the correct tense (Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous).

Ex. 115. Put the verbs into the correct tense (Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous).

A: (you / take) ……………………….. the dog for a walk yet?

B: I (work) ………………………….all day. I (come / just) ………………. home from work and I (have / not) ……………………the time yet to walk the dog.

A: How long (the dog / be) ………………………… home alone?

B: For about 6 hours. You (walk / not) ………………………... the dog for a long time. Don't you want to go?

A: Well, I (laze / not) ……………………..about all day either, you know. I have a very important meeting tomorrow and I still (finish / not) ……………………. my presentation.

B: Okay, I will go then. Where (you / put) ………………….collar and leash?

A: They are in the kitchen. By the way, (you / eat) ………………….anything yet? If not, could you get us something from the supermarket?

A: I (call) …………………….for you for half an hour. Where (be) …………….? And why are your clothes so dirty?

B: I (tidy) ……………………up the shed in the garden.

A: (you/find) ……………………. a box with old photos there? I (look) ……………….for it for ages.

B: I (discover / not) …………………..it yet, but I (work / not) ………………… for a long time yet. I (come / just) …………………… in to eat something.

A: I (cook/ not)……………………..anything yet because I (talk) …………………to our neighbour.

Tom: Hi Ana. I (try)……………… to ring you several times today. Where (you / be) …………………?

Ana: I (be) …………………… at home all the time. But I (clean)…………….. the house all day, so maybe I didn't hear the phone ring.

Tom: (you / clean) …………………………. everything now?

Ana: No, not yet. I (tidy / not) …………………… up the kitchen yet. But why are you here?

Tom: Don't you remember? Jane (invited) …………………….. us to her birthday party and we (buy / not) ……………………………. a present for her yet.

Ana: Oh, that's right. (you / find out / already)…………………………… what she wants?

Tom: Well, she (learn)……………………. Spanish for a year and wants to spend her next holiday in Mexico. Maybe we could get her a guide book.

Ana: That's a good idea. There is a good bookshop in the big shopping centre. I (see) …………………… some nice books about Mexico there recently.

1. Ann______________________ (fail) her driving test three times because she's so bad at reversing. But she ______________________ (practise) reversing for the last week and I think she __________________ (get) a bit better at it.

2. A pair of robins______________________ (build) a nest in the porch since last week. I ______________________ (watch) them from my window since they began.

3. The police______________________ (not find) the murderer yet, but the dead man's brother ______________________ (be) in the station all day. The police say that he______________________ (help) them with their enquiries.

4.They ______________________ (pull) down most of the houses in this street, but they ______________________ (not touch) the old shop at the corner yet.

5. Tom is convinced that there is gold in these hills but we______________________ (search) for six months and______________________ (not see) any sign of it.

6. I ______________________ (wait) for the prices of the houses to come down before buying a house, but I think I ______________________ (wait) too long and the prices are beginning to go up again.

7. Peter ______________________ (be) a junior clerk for three years. Lately he ______________________ (look) for a better post but so far he (not find) anything.

8. I ______________________ (do) housework all morning and I ______________________ (not finish) yet. I ______________________ (do) mine already. I always start at 6 a.m.

9. I just ______________________ (pick) ten pounds of strawberries! I ____________________ (grow) strawberries for years but I never ______________________ (have) such a good crop before.

10. What you ______________________ (do) with the corkscrew? The point is broken off. I'm afraid I ______________________ (use) it to make holes in this tin.

11. She just ______________________ (sell) two of her own paintings.

She's lucky. I ______________________ (paint) for five years and I (not sell) a single picture yet.

12. They are throwing crockery at each other in the next flat. This ______________________ (happen) before? Well, they ______________________ (have) a good many rows but this is the fifth time they ______________________ (threw) crockery.

13. What you ______________________ (do) with my typewriter? I can't find it anywhere. Tom just______________________ (go) off with it. He says he'll bring it back when he ______________________ (finish).

14. He ______________________ (work) for Crow Brothers for forty years and never once______________________ (be) late. The firm just __________________ (present) him with a gold watch as a sign of their appreciation.

15. We ______________________ (mend) sheets all morning but we only ______________________ (do) three, and now the sewing machine ______________________ (break) down so we'll be even slower with the next one.

16. George ______________________ (collect) matchboxes ever since he left school. Now he ______________________ (collect) so many that he doesn't know where to put them.

17. I ______________________ (look) through my old photograph album. It's full of photographs of people whose names I completely _____________________ (forget). I wonder what ______________________ (happen) to them all.

18. It was lovely at eleven o'clock, but since then the sky __________________ (get) steadily darker and the wind ______________________ (rise).

I'm afraid the fine spell ______________________ (come) to an end.

19. Since he became Mayor, my brother reckons that he __________________ (eat) 30 official lunches and 22 official dinner, and he ___________________ (lose) count of the number of receptions and parties that he _____________ (attend). He______________________ (put) on a lot of weight?

20. I ______________________ (stand) in this queue for ages. It _______________ (not move) at all in the last five minutes. I think the man in the ticket office just ___________________ (shut) his window and________________ (go) off for lunch.

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