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Past Simple Vs Present Perfect

This document compares and contrasts the past simple and present perfect simple tenses in English. It provides examples of questions using each tense about experiences in the past or those continuing to the present. It also gives examples of short answers in the past simple and present perfect, questions to fill in with the correct form of "to be" and "to go", explanations of differences between sentences using each tense, and corrections of examples containing tense mistakes.

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Past Simple Vs Present Perfect

This document compares and contrasts the past simple and present perfect simple tenses in English. It provides examples of questions using each tense about experiences in the past or those continuing to the present. It also gives examples of short answers in the past simple and present perfect, questions to fill in with the correct form of "to be" and "to go", explanations of differences between sentences using each tense, and corrections of examples containing tense mistakes.

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Past Simple VS Present Perfect Simple.

1. Which question asks about


- your general experience
- a specific time in the past?
a. Have you ever been to Sweden?
b. When did you go to Stockholm?
2. Which question asks about :
the author who is alive and might write more books
the writer who died?
a. How many books did J.R.R. Tolkien write?

b. How many books has J. K. Rowling written?

3. In which situation the speaker :


still lives in Scotland
has moved away?
a. I lived in Scotland for 5 years.

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b. I have lived in Scotland for 5 years.

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Past Simple VS Present Perfect Simple.

Past Simple.
(+) Subject + ______ .
example: _____________________________
(-) Subject + _____ not + bare infinitive
example : _____________________________
(?) ______ + subject + bare infinitive
example: _____________________________

Present Perfect Simple.


(+) Subject + have/_____ + ________
example: ______________________________
(-) Subject + have/______ not + _________
example: ______________________________
(?) have/____ + subject + _________
example: ______________________________

1. Short answers:

Did you go to the cinema last night? - Yes, I _____.


Did you like the dinner yesterday? - No, I _____.
Have you seen this new movie? - No, I ______.
Has she called you yet? - Yes, she ______.
Did you go to the seaside last summer? - No, I _____.
Have you swum this summer? - Yes, I ______.
Has he finished the project? - No, he _______.

2. Fill in the gaps:


- How many European countries _____ you _____ to? (to
be)
- I_________ to 10, I guess. (to be)
- _____you _____ to France? (to be)
- Yeah, I ________ there several times.(to be)
- When _____ the last time you _____ there? (to be/ to go)
- I ________ there with my family 2 years ago. (to travel)
- How ____ you _____ it? (to like)
- We ______ it, especially the north. (to love)

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Past Simple VS Present Perfect Simple.


3. Explain the difference:

I worked here for 3 years.


I've worked here for 3 years.

I've already done my homework.


I did my homework.

Have you seen the movie?


Did you see the movie?

There has just been an accident.


There was an accident.

He has been sick.


He was sick.

4. Correct the mistakes:

Have you lived here in 2002?

He has already did the housework.

Did you plan your trip to Berlin yet?

He worked here since 1999 and he still works


here.

They have never visit Dublin.

Frank Sinatra has given many beautiful


concerts.

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Created by Marina Novitskaya. www.MaFrieSto.com

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