Present Perfect – Sentence Practice

PAST TENSE ADVERBS		PRESENT PERFECT TENSE ADVERBS
COMPLETED		ONGOING
A PAST CALENDAR TIME last night	A PAST TIME WITHIN A PERIOD today (hours passed)	ONGOING TO NOW up to / until now	ONGOING WITHIN A PRESENT PERIOD today (hours ongoing)
yesterday	this morning (hours passed)	so far	this morning (hours ongoing)
last week	this week (days passed)	before now	this week (days ongoing)
last year	this year (days passed)	to date	this year (days ongoing)
last January	this century (years passed)	until this moment	this century (years ongoing)
AN EXACT TIME January 10, 1999	A PAST HABIT always "used to"	ONGOING FROM AN EXACT TIME since noon (exact time)	ONGOING FOR A QUANTITY OF TIME for two minutes (quantity time)
August 1960	mostly	since this morning	for an hour
1992	sometimes	since July 2003	for three days
May 5th at 5:00 (past)	half of the time	since yesterday	over the past 3 years
on June 6, 1906	infrequently	since the 1900s	in my life (current)
in the 1900s	never	ever since I met you	in these times (current)
A PAST TIME RELATIVE TO NOW a second ago	A PAST RELATIVE TIME at that time	ONGOING AS A HABIT always	ONGOING IN SPEAKER'S MIND recently
a hour ago	then, back then	usually	lately
six weeks ago	in those times (past)	often	just
a year ago	when I was there	frequently
	while I was visiting.	occasionally
	during the 1990s	never
		ONGOING AS EXPERIENCE ever?	EXPECTATION– POSSIBLY ONGOING already (completed)
		before?	yet
		(often no adverb)	still

Also see: Adverbs for Time (summary of tenses)

Select the word from each menu that best completes the sentence. Make sure the verb tense agrees with the adverb.
Compare your response to the answer by clicking the "check" button to the right.

#	YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK YOUR ANSWER
1.	The weather cold since the end of November.
2.	Many of the students in this class snow before.
3.	They to see snow for a long time.
4.	snow before?
5.	There a really fun costume party last night.
6.	your country before?
7.	Sally to the store a few minutes ago.
8.	The students very excited when the instructor assigned no homework.
9.	We a three-day weekend for a long time.
10.	How long since your parents received a letter from you.
11.	When to this city?
12.	Where last weekend?
13.	your sister to the Science Museum yet?
14.	I a lot of homework so far, so don't ask me to do yours.
15.	I did a lot of homework this morning and studied in the library in the afternoon. I a lot of work today!
16.	Sherry Chemistry for five years. Now, she is studying music instead.
17.	to the College of San Mateo?
18	I think she there in 2009.
19.	the news today? There's a stock market crash.
20.	They reported that there a stock market crash.
21.	Where that joke?
22.	Mom! Tommy me. Whaaaa (crying sound)
23.	Who my cookie?
24.	Who that picture?
25.	What that noise?
26.	When ?

Select the word from each menu that best completes the sentence.
Compare your response to the answer by clicking the "check" button to the right.

#	YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK YOUR ANSWER
27.	He the piano for two hours. (He's playing now.)
28.	I a lot of headaches recently. This one today is terrible.
29.	They several homes all over the U.S.
30.	I the 2001 model Ferrari.
31.	He Joan a lot this week.
32.	I with them for this past week.
33.	She in San Mateo all her life.
34.	That man on that corner all day.
35.	The castle on a hill over the Seine for nine hundred years.
36.	My television very well lately.
37.	My grandfather since he retired.
38.	I the flowers in your garden.
39.	He like garlic since he ate that pizza.
40.	His hard work us.
41.	He that his hard work would pay off.
42.	He to attend a good college.
43.	I well all day.
44.	The nurse babies on the pediatrician's scale for twenty five years.
45.	He 160 lbs since he was a teenager.

Remember that stative verbs cannot take theprogressive verb form. Related pages: Stative Verbs

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