1) Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect Tense.
1. Why you (not mend) the fuse? – I (not have) time.
2. Where you (be)? – I (be) to the dentist. I (not finish) my letter yet. He just (go) out.
3. Someone (take) my bicycle.
4. I often (see) him but I never (speak) to him.
5. We just (hear) the most extraordinary news.
6. The phone (stop) ringing.
7. I just (wash) that floor.
8. The cat (steal) the fish.
9. How many bottles the milkman (leave)? – He (leave) six.
10. I (live) here for ten years.
11. How long you (know) Mr Pitt? – I (know) him for ten years.
12. Would you like some coffee? I just (make) some.
13. Mary (water) the tomatoes? – Yes, I think she . . .
14. You (not make) a mistake? – No, I’m sure I ...
15. There aren't any buses because the drivers (go) on strike.
16. You (have) enough to eat? – Yes, I (have) plenty, thank you.
17. You ever (ride) a camel?
18. I (buy) a new carpet. Come and look at it. He (post) the letter?
19. Why he (not finish)? He (have) plenty of time.
20. The police (recapture) the prisoners who escaped yesterday.
21. I (not pay) the telephone bill yet.
22. You (dive) from the ten-metre board yet? – No, I ...
23. I (ask) him to dinner several times.
2) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
1. I (notice) something strange in her lately.
2. We believe you (be) very busy since Christmas.
3. New York house (be) his main home for the last forty years.
4. I always (want) to look clever, but now at the age of twenty I have to
admit that I look like a person who never even (hear) of Jung or Updike.
5. I (miss) you terribly! Where you (be) all this time?
6. It (be) a long way, I really feel tired.
7. I always (like) being near water, and for as long as I can remember.
8. Frank wants to fly. He (do) this so many times in his mind that he is beginning
to think it really (happen).
9. Life (be) very kind to me.
10. Melanie (know) the Hills for donkey's years.
11. We (see) each other fairly steadily for the past year, and when David asked me
to marry him, last week, there seemed no reason to say “no”. I (be) very lonely for
a very long time. And so (have) David, ever since his wife died seven years ago.
12. After all, Nigel always (be) a bit of a know-it-all.
13. It is quiet in the apartment now that everybody (leave) it.
14. It’s strange that they are friends, they never (share) the same interests.
15. I not (see) fireflies since childhood.