English in Valencia: present perfect gapfill exercise

Exercise: gapfill

Exercise: gapfill pdf version

Present tenses

Present perfect gapfill exercise

Fill in each blank by putting the verb in red into the correct tense. Do NOT use short forms.

Click on the "c" button to check your answer. *Asterisks* will appear around the word or phrase if it is right. If it isn't right, the incorrect part of your answer will be replaced by lines. The number of lines corresponds to the number of letters AND spaces between words.

In desperation you can click the 'show answers' button after the exercise.

(1)   Kevin's back from America. I see him just now in the pub.

(2)   Her husband read the instructions for the DVD for half an hour now, and he still can't get it to work.

(3)   I hate my job! I decide to resign, and you're the first to know.

(4)   One of my students be on holiday three times this year.

(5)   How long you/live here?

(6)   So far his aunt be married four times.

(7)   My nephew live in Mexico at the moment, and my sister go to visit him last month.

(8)   you/read this book before?

(9)   You sit at your desk for hours now. You need a break.

(10)   I know Elsie since 1998.

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