CHAPTER 4. THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT (1) FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR CHAPTER 4. THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT

EXERCISE 1. Review and preview: present and past verbs. Directions: Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses. Some of the completions review verb tenses studied in Chapters 1 and 2. Some of them preview verb tenses that will be studied in this chapter: the present perfect and the past perfect. Discuss the form and meaning of the new tenses. There may be more than one possible correct completion. My name (be) ______is_____ (1) Surasuk Jutukanyaprateep. I (be) _________ (2) from Thailand. Right now I (study) _________ (3) English at this school. I (be) _________ (4) at this school since the beginning of January. I (arrive) _________ (5) here January 2, and my classes (begin) _________ (6) January 6. Since I (come) _________ (7) here, I (do) _________ (8) many things, and I (meet) _________ (9) many people. Last week, I (go) _________ (10) to a party at my friend's house. I (meet) _________ (11) some of the other students from Thailand at the party. Of course, we (speak) _________ (12) Thai, so I (practice, not) _________ (13) my English that night. There (be) _________ (14) only people from Thailand at the party. However, since I (come) _________ (15) here, I (meet) _________ (16) a lot of other people, too. I (meet) _________ (17) people from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. I enjoy meeting people from other countries. Before I came here, I (meet, never) _________ (18) anyone from the Ukraine or Bolivia. Now I  (know) _________ (19) people from both these places, and they (become) _________ (20) my friends.

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