2Present perfect 1Unit A Introduction 1 These two news stories use different tenses. Text (a) uses present perfect (e.g. have spoken, have looked); text (b) uses mostly past simple (e.g. spoke, looked). The important verbs are marked in bold. Why do you think the tenses are different in the two texts? a) b) 2 Organise these phrases into three columns headed used with past simple, used Weuse the perfect continuous when the focus is on the continuity rather than the completion. 3. I .. ten letters since morning. wrote . have written . have been writing The present perfect continuous can be used to talk about situations that have just stopped and have present results. Play Again! Answers. 1. Exercise1. Choose past simple, past continuous or past perfect to complete the sentences below. It was Sunday afternoon. I 1 a cookery program on TV when I 2 how hungry I was. But of course I was hungry; I 3 anything since lunch, and I 4 a race in the morning. "Biscuits!". Thepresent perfect question was about general experience (ever = in your life). There's no specific time, so the door is open and we use the present perfect. But when Venus says, "Yes, I have", they're now talking about a specific point in time (the time Venus fired a gun). The door is now closed, and we use the past simple. Presentperfect; Now, present perfect continuous describes a situation that started in the near past and continues to exist. The doctors started taking good care of the patients and are still doing so. So, both present perfect and simple past can precede situations described using present perfect continuous. Choosethe correct answers to complete the article. Use the present perfect continuous where possible. Message in bottle arrives after 101 years. German sailors a bottle containing a message on a postcard which was thrown into the Baltic Sea 101 years ago. It is believed that this is the oldest message in a bottle that the world . Presentperfect continuous tense is a tense which is used to indicate the actions that began in the past but have continued or lasted till the present moment. It lays emphasis on the duration or the amount of time for which an action has been taking place. As the name suggests, the present perfect continuous tense describes an event or action ayWqO.

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