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Exercises with Present Perfect Simple & Present Perfect Continuous


**EXERCISE 1. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous. Specify where both tenses may be used:**


1. He not (be).......... to this restaurant for years.

2. She must tell us what she (read) .........since her last exam.

3. I (look)........for the pen everywhere, but (not find).......it.

4. You (run)........too fast. Stop and rest a little.

5. She (sit)..........in that armchair since you left.

6. I (know) ........... him since he was a child.

7. My friend (teach) ..........in that school since 1966.

8. They (build)............that block-of-flats for several months, but (finish)........only half of it.

9. He not(come)........... yet but his wife already (arrive)..........

10. This tower (stand).........here for two hundred years.

11. You (not buy)........me flowers for years.

12. I (not play)......... much chess lately, I (be).........too busy.

13. We (not speak)......... since we quarreled.

14. Somebody (smoke)............. in this room, it smells of cigarettes.

15. He (waste)............his time instead of learning.

Answer 1

Salut,

Present Perfect Continuous se referă la o acțiunea continuă, începută în trecut și care se continuă în prezentul acțiunii.

1. ... has not been

2. has been reading

3. I have been looking for the pen, ... but I have not found it.

4. have been running

5. has been sitting

6. have known

7. has been teaching

8. have been building that... but they have finished only half of it.

9. He has not come, yet, but his wife has already arrived.

10. has been standing

11. have not bought

12. have not played much chess..., I have been too busy.

13. have not been speaking

14. has been smoking

15. has been wasting

Green eyes.