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1. The document discusses verb tenses, providing examples of sentences using simple past and present perfect tenses. Exercises are given asking the reader to complete sentences using the appropriate tense.
2. Over time, technology has greatly changed from early computers in the 1970s which had little memory and power and cost thousands, to today's powerful machines with many practical applications and uses.
3. A couple waits over half an hour in a restaurant without their order being taken, despite the waiter walking by many times, as he seems to have forgotten about them.
1. The document discusses verb tenses, providing examples of sentences using simple past and present perfect tenses. Exercises are given asking the reader to complete sentences using the appropriate tense.
2. Over time, technology has greatly changed from early computers in the 1970s which had little memory and power and cost thousands, to today's powerful machines with many practical applications and uses.
3. A couple waits over half an hour in a restaurant without their order being taken, despite the waiter walking by many times, as he seems to have forgotten about them.
1. The document discusses verb tenses, providing examples of sentences using simple past and present perfect tenses. Exercises are given asking the reader to complete sentences using the appropriate tense.
2. Over time, technology has greatly changed from early computers in the 1970s which had little memory and power and cost thousands, to today's powerful machines with many practical applications and uses.
3. A couple waits over half an hour in a restaurant without their order being taken, despite the waiter walking by many times, as he seems to have forgotten about them.
Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Top of Form 1. ! "id you like the mo#ie "$tar %ars&" '! ( don)t know. ( *see, ne#er+ that mo#ie. ,. $am *arri#e+ in $an "iego a week ago. -. .y best friend and ( *know+ each other for o#er fifteen years. %e still get together once a week. /. $tinson is a fantastic writer. 0e *write+ ten #ery creati#e short stories in the last year. 1ne day, he)ll be as famous as 0emingway. 2. ( *ha#e, not+ this much fun since ( *be+ a kid. 3. Things *change+ a great deal at Coltech, (nc. %hen we first *start+ working here three years ago, the company *ha#e, only+ six employees. $ince then, we *expand+ to include more than ,444 full5time workers. 6. ( *tell+ him to stay on the path while he was hiking, but he *wander+ off into the forest and *be+ bitten by a snake. 7. 8isten "onna, ( don)t care if you *miss+ the bus this morning. 9ou *be+ late to work too many times. 9ou are fired: ;. $am is from Colorado, which is hundreds of miles from the coast, so he *see, ne#er+ the ocean. 0e should come with us to .iami. 14. 0ow sad: <eorge *dream+ of going to California before he died, but he didn)t make it. 0e *see, ne#er+ the ocean. 11. (n the last hundred years, tra#eling *become+ much easier and #ery comfortable. (n the 1;th century, it *take+ two or three months to cross =orth merica by co#ered wagon. The trip *be+ #ery rough and often dangerous. Things *change+ a great deal in the last hundred and fifty years. =ow you can fly from =ew 9ork to 8os ngeles in a matter of hours. 1,. >onny, ( can)t belie#e how much you *change+ since the last time ( *see+ you. 9ou *grow+ at least a foot: 1-. This tree *be+ planted by the settlers who *found+ our city o#er four hundred years ago. 1/. This mountain *be, ne#er+ climbed by anyone. $e#eral mountaineers *try+ to reach the top, but nobody *succeed, e#er+ . The climb is extremely difficult and many people *die+ trying to reach the summit. 12. ( *#isit, ne#er+ frica, but ( *tra#el+ to $outh merica se#eral times. The last time ( *go+ to $outh merica, ( *#isit+ 'ra?il and @eru. ( *spend+ two weeks in the ma?on, *hike+ for a week near .achu @icchu, and *fly+ o#er the =a?ca 8ines. 'ottom of Form Verb Tense Exercise 6 Simple Past / Present Perfect Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Top of Form $ince computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1;74)s, technology *change+ a great deal. The first computers *be+ simple machines designed for basic tasks. They *ha#e, not+ much memory and they *be, not+ #ery powerful. Aarly computers were often Buite expensi#e and customers often *pay+ thousands of dollars for machines which actually *do+ #ery little. .ost computers *be+ separate, indi#idual machines used mostly as expensi#e typewriters or for playing games. Times *change+ . Computers *become+ powerful machines with #ery practical applications. @rogrammers *create+ a large selection of useful programs which do e#erything from teaching foreign languages to bookkeeping. %e are still playing #ideo games, but today)s games *become+ faster, more exciting interacti#e ad#entures. .any computer users *get, also+ on the (nternet and *begin+ communicating with other computer users around the world. %e *start+ to create international communities online. (n short, the simple, indi#idual machines of the past *e#ol#e+ into an international %orld %ide %eb of knowledge. 'ottom of Form Verb Tense Exercise 7 Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Top of Form Robin: ( think the waiter *forget+ us. %e *wait+ here for o#er half an hour and nobody *take+ our order yet. Michele: ( think you)re right. 0e *walk+ by us at least twenty times. 0e probably thinks we *order, already+ . Robin: 8ook at that couple o#er there, they *be, only+ here for fi#e or ten minutes and they already ha#e their food. Michele: 0e must reali?e we *order, not+ yet: %e *sit+ here for o#er half an hour staring at him. Robin: ( don)t know if he *notice, e#en+ us. 0e *run+ from table to table taking orders and ser#ing food. Michele: That)s true, and he *look, not+ in our direction once. 'ottom of Form Verb Tense Exercise Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Top of Form 1. >udy! 0ow long *be+ in Canada& Claude! ( *study+ here for more than three years. ,. ( *ha#e+ the same car for more than ten years. ()m thinking about buying a new one. -. ( *lo#e+ chocolate since ( was a child. 9ou might e#en call me a "chocoholic." /. .att and $arah *ha#e+ some difficulties in their relationship lately, so they *go+ to a marriage counselor. ( hope they work e#erything out. 2. >ohn *work+ for the go#ernment since he graduated from 0ar#ard Uni#ersity. Until recently, he *enCoy+ his work, but now he is talking about retiring. 3. 8ately, ( *think+ about changing my career because ( *become+ dissatisfied with the conditions at my company. 6. ( *see+ >udy for more than fi#e years and during that time ( *see+ many changes in her personality.'ottom of Form
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