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    This document contains two exercises on using the present perfect and past tense in English. The first exercise provides 10 sentences where verbs are missing and must be filled in with the appropriate tense. The second exercise provides 15 similar sentences to complete. The document then explains the formation, uses and rules for using the past perfect tense in English narratives and descriptions of past events.

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    This document contains two exercises on using the present perfect and past tense in English. The first exercise provides 10 sentences where verbs are missing and must be filled in with the appropriate tense. The second exercise provides 15 similar sentences to complete. The document then explains the formation, uses and rules for using the past perfect tense in English narratives and descriptions of past events.

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    The Present Perfect and the Past Tense

    EXERCISE

    5. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Past Tense, depending on

    the given alternatives:


    1. They (try) . to speak only English (lately, last night). 2. She (have)
    . a lot of work (today, in January). 3. I (practise) . for
    three hours (today, before I came here). 4. He (complete) . his work
    (yesterday, this morning, for a long time now). 5. My grandparents (live) .
    in the country (since the war, until the war). 6. Who(m) you (speak) . to
    (just now, all this time)? 7. I (dislike) . mathematics (when I was a pupil,
    always). 8. We (live) . here (for three years, three years ago). 9. John
    (hear) . about your arrival (yesterday, just). 10. The weather (change)
    . (since this morning, as I left the house).
    EXERCISE

    6. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Past Tense:

    1. He (write) two pages so far. 2. She (forget) to take her book


    with her. 3. They (leave) the village last week. 4. Ann (live)
    in Bucharest from 1968 to 1970. 5. They not (play) football since last week.
    6. John (start)

    to learn French last October. 7. Father not (come)

    home yet. 8. I cannot tell you where she is, as I not (see) her.
    9. When you (receive)

    the letter from them? 10. They (become)

    very well-known now. 11. Much progress (be made) lately in


    nuclear science. 12. She never (teach) grammar before. 13. Years ago he
    (work) here but now he (move) to another factory. 14. This
    novelist (write) some very good plays too, he (write) them in
    his youth. 15. The play (begin) half an hour late last night so we (be)
    late for dinner.

    VII. The past perfect tense


    Form
    This tense is formed with had and the past participle:
    Affirmative: I had/I'd worked etc.

    Negative: / had not/hadn't worked etc.


    Interrogative: had I worked? etc.
    Negative interrogative: had I not/hadn't I worked? etc.
    Use
    The past perfect is the past equivalent of the present perfect. Present: Ann has just left. If you
    hurry you'll catch her. Past: When I arrived Ann had just left.
    Present: I've lost my case. Past: He had lost his case and had to borrow Tom's pyjamas.
    1. The past perfect can be used for an action which began before the time of speaking in the
    past, and was still continuing at that time or stopped at that time or just before it.
    2. for an action which stopped some time before the time of speaking
    Bill was in uniform when I met him. He had been a soldier for ten years/since he was seventeen,
    and planned to stay in the army I ill he was thirty.
    The old oak tree, which had stood in the churchyard for 300 years/since before the church was
    built, suddenly crashed to the ground.
    3. The past perfect is also the past equivalent of the simple past tense, and is used when the
    narrator or subject looks back on earlier action from a certain point in the past:
    Tom was 23 when our story begins. His father had died five years before and since then Tom had
    lived alone. His father had advised him not to get married till he was 35, and Tom intended to
    follow this advice. I had just poured myself a glass of beer when the phone rang. When

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