Present Perfect

PAST TENSE ADVERBS

PRESENT PERFECT ADVERBS

COMPLETED

ONGOING

up to / until now	*this morning (hours ongoing)
so far	*this week (days ongoing)
before now	*this year (days ongoing)
to date	*this decade (years ongoing)
until this moment	*this century (years ongoing)

since noon (exact time)	for two minutes (quantity time)
since this morning	for an hour
since July 2003	for three days
since yesterday	over the past 3 years
since the 1900s	in my life (current)
ever since I met you	in these times (current)

Select the word from each menu that best completes the sentence. Make sure the verb tense agrees with the adverb.
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#	YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK YOUR ANSWER
1.	The weather cold since the end of November.
2.	Many of the students in this class snow before.
3.	They to see snow for a long time.
4.	snow before?
5.	There a really fun costume party last night.
6.	your country before?
7.	Sally to the store a few minutes ago.
8.	The students very excited when no homework was given.
9.	We a three-day weekend for a long time.
10.	How long since your parent received a letter from you.
11.	When to this city?
12.	Where last weekend?
13.	your sister to the Science Museum yet?
14.	I a lot of homework so far, so don't ask me to do yours.
15.	I did a lot of homework this morning and studied in the library in the afternoon, I a lot of work today!
16.	Sherry Chemistry for five years. Now, she is studying music instead.
17.	to CSM?
18	I think she there in 1993.
19.	the news today? There's a stock market crash.
20.	They reported that there a stock market crash.
21.	Where that joke?
22.	Mom! Tommy me. Whaaaa (crying sound)
23.	Who my cookie?
24.	Who that picture?
25.	What that noise?
26.	When ?

*Both present perfect and present perfect progressive can be used.

Select the word from each menu that best completes the sentence.
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#	YOUR RESPONSE	CHECK YOUR ANSWER
27.	He the piano for two hours. (He's playing now.)
28.	I a lot of headaches recently. This one today is terrible.
29.	They several homes all over the U.S. *
30.	I the 2001 model Ferrari.
31.	He Joan a lot this week. *
32.	I with them for this past week.
33.	She in San Mateo all her life. *
34.	That man on that corner all day.
35.	The castle on a hill over the Seine for nine hundred years.
36.	My television very well lately.
37.	My grandfather since he retired.
38.	I the flowers in your garden. *
39.	He like garlic since he ate that pizza.
40.	His hard work us.
41.	He that his hard work would pay off.
42.	He to attend a good college.
43.	I well all day.
44.	The nurse babies on the pediatrician's scale for twenty five years. *
45	He 160 lbs since he was a teenager.

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