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Present Perfect

Diagnostic Quiz

Identify specific English grammar points that need review. Use the study links to find out why a particular answer is correct or incorrect.

Quiz 1

Beginning

Decide which verb form can be used in the sentence.

Select the response from the list that best completes the sentence.
Compare your response to the feedback by clicking the "check" button.

Marty's Hamburger stand on Main Street forty-seven years.

a stand (N) – a small store near the sidewalk what sells fast food or vegetables

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Permanent/Temp

Marty hamburgers the early 1960s.

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Duration/ Repetition

Marty the "combo burger" —half hamburger and half hot dog— in 1962.

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Present State of Mind

Marty the freshest ingredients in his hamburgers.

ingredients (N) – the various foods that go into his hamburgers (or any recipe)

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Up to Now

He anything but grass-feed beef.

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Up to Now

Other places have started using less expensive beef, but Marty .

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Reporting Source

Where to cook?

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Reporting Source

Marty over a million people.

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Experience

Marty the kitchen in his stand.
update (V) – to make more modern, buy new equipment

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Just / Recently

10.

opening a second stand?

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Experience Up to Now - word order

11.

Yes, he has, but he .

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Present–GenTruth Emotion States

12.

Marty's business very well lately.

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Ongoing

Quiz 2

Intermediate

Decide which verb form can be used in the sentence.

Select the response from the list that best completes the sentence.
Compare your response to the feedback by clicking the "check" button to the right.
In some cases, an answer is marked (preferred) when one answer occurs more commonly than another.

13.

Lunch trucks in popularity recently.

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Ongoing

14.

What they have to offer a lot!

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Up to Now (word order, agreement)

15.

The truck owners a while ago that it was better to take the restaurant to the customer.

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Up to Now, So Far Past Complete

16.

The chefs on board the menu to include gourmet items for the foodies.

foodies (expression) – people who love gourmet food

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Ongoing

17.

Several lunch trucks Twitter accounts so that their customers will know where they are at any time of the day.

Twitter – a social networking service on cell/mobile phones

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Just / Recently

18.

A customer can check Twitter to find out if the truck by his location.

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Already / Yet

19.

You have eaten from a lunch truck, .

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Up to Now

20.

One truck that sells French crepes has had great success .

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For / Since

21.

Some party planners outdoor garden parties with the trucks being the central interest.

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Duration/ Repetition Possession States Even

22.

One chef who a truck for a while says, "It's great to actually see the people who eat my food."

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Permanent/Temp (stative verbs)

23.

If you one of these fancy trucks, you may soon.

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Experience ever / never

24.

Businesses, schools and downtown centers issuing permits for these trucks to park on their sites.

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Gerunds (double -ing phrasing)

25.

New technology along with chefs who think out-of-the-box it possible for these gourmet treasures to come to us, the customers.

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Completed / Ongoing