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This document contains an excerpt from an English grammar textbook published by Cambridge University Press. It includes exercises for students to practice using the present perfect and past simple tenses correctly. There are sentences for students to complete using verbs in brackets, sentences for students to identify if the underlined verb forms are right or wrong, and sentences for students to put verbs in the correct present perfect or past simple form. The exercises focus on distinguishing between and practicing the proper uses of the present perfect and past simple tenses.

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Exercises: 0ruhlqirupdwlrq

This document contains an excerpt from an English grammar textbook published by Cambridge University Press. It includes exercises for students to practice using the present perfect and past simple tenses correctly. There are sentences for students to complete using verbs in brackets, sentences for students to identify if the underlined verb forms are right or wrong, and sentences for students to put verbs in the correct present perfect or past simple form. The exercises focus on distinguishing between and practicing the proper uses of the present perfect and past simple tenses.

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Exercises 13
13.1 Complete the sentences using the verbs in brackets. Use the present perfect where possible.
Otherwise use the past simple.
The office is empty now.
1 2 Everybody
(go) home.

I can’t get in.


I ’ve lost (lose) my
key.

3 4

I meant to call you last night,


but I Helen
(forget). (go) to Egypt for a holiday, but
she’s back home in England now.
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Yes, I Can you help us? Our car


(have) a headache, but I’m
fine now. (break) down.

13.2 Are the underlined parts of these sentences right or wrong? Correct them where necessary.
1 Did you hear about Sue? She’s given up her job. OK
2 My mother has grown up in Italy. grew
3 How many poems has William Shakespeare written?
4 Ow! I’ve cut my finger. It’s bleeding.
5 Drugs have become a big problem everywhere.
6 Who has invented paper?
7 Where have you been born?
8 Ellie isn’t at home. She’s gone shopping.
9 Albert Einstein has been the scientist who
has developed the theory of relativity.

13.3 Put the verb into the correct form, present perfect or past simple.
1 It stopped raining for a while, but now it’s raining again. (it / stop)
2 The town where I live is very different now. It has changed a lot. (it / change)
3 I studied German at school, but most of it now. (I / forget)
4 The police three people, but later they let them go. (arrest)
5 What do you think of my English? Do you think ? (it / improve)
6 A: Are you still reading the paper?
B: No, with it. You can have it. (I / finish)
7 for a job as a tourist guide, but I wasn’t successful. (I / apply)
8 Where’s my bike? outside the house, but it’s not there now. (it / be)
9 Quick! We need to call an ambulance. an accident. (there / be)
10 A: Have you heard about Ben? his arm. (he / break)
B: Really? How ? (that / happen)
A: off a ladder. (he / fall)
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