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Present Perfect This Is The Structure and The Auxiliary: Tense Review

This document provides instruction and exercises on using the present perfect and past perfect tenses in English, as well as tag questions. It includes examples of how to form sentences using verbs in their past participle form for the present perfect tense. For the past perfect tense, it gives examples of sentences using had + past participle and explains that the past perfect is used to refer to an event that occurred before another past event. Exercises provide opportunities to practice forming sentences using these tenses as well as completing sentences and questions using the appropriate auxiliary verbs.

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Present Perfect This Is The Structure and The Auxiliary: Tense Review

This document provides instruction and exercises on using the present perfect and past perfect tenses in English, as well as tag questions. It includes examples of how to form sentences using verbs in their past participle form for the present perfect tense. For the past perfect tense, it gives examples of sentences using had + past participle and explains that the past perfect is used to refer to an event that occurred before another past event. Exercises provide opportunities to practice forming sentences using these tenses as well as completing sentences and questions using the appropriate auxiliary verbs.

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Tense review

PRESENT PERFECT
This is the structure and the auxiliary

EXERCISE
Instructions: Create sentences with these verbs. Remember that the verbs you have to
change them into past participle.
 Play

 Eat

 See

 Live

 Work
TOPIC 1: Past perfect
You can learn more about the topic in the following links:
https://www.curso-ingles.com/aprender/cursos/nivel-avanzado/verb-tenses-past-
perfect/past-perfect
https://www.ef.com.mx/recursos-aprender-ingles/gramatica-inglesa/past-perfect/

EXERCISE 1.1
Instruction: Complete the following sentences with past perfect.

1. He couldn’t get into the house because he _______________ (forget) his keys.
2. When I arrived to the station, the train ________ already ____________ (leave).
3. He remembered the story very well because he _______________ (read) the book
several times.
4. By the time he called, I _________ already ______________ (be) out of my house.
5. When I got home I discovered I _______________ (lose) my keys.
6. Ryan Patterson came up with his idea after he _______________ (visit) a fast food
restaurant.
7. He was very hungry because he _______________ (not eat) since breakfast.

EXERCISE 1.2
Instruction: Create 3 sentences with past perfect
1.
2.
3.

EXERCISE 1.3
Note: Remember that past perfect is always linked to another event in the past (simple
past). Those two events you can link them with adverbs like “by the time”, “when”, “after”
or “before”.
Instruction: Complete the following with a sentence in the correct tense, either in “simple
past” or “past perfect”. Use the adverbs like “by the time”, “when”, etc. if they are needed.

When he came _____________________


I had already eaten ___________________
She had just left ____________________
By the time I got to the school ____________________
You had had an accident before ___________________

TOPIC 2: Tag questions


You can learn more about tag questions in the following web sites or you can look for by
your own:
https://www.curso-ingles.com/aprender/cursos/nivel-intermedio/questions/question-tags
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/tag-questions.htm
The structure of the tag question is:
a) Affirmative sentence, + auxiliary in negative + subject ?
Ex. You cook, don’t you?

b) Negative sentence, + auxiliary in affirmative + subject?


Ex. You don’t cool, do you?

NOTE: this topic is a combination of a lot of tenses. In this topic we see future will, present
perfect, present continuous, simple present and simple past. Take that in consideration
because ever tense has different auxiliaries.

EXERCISE 2.1
1. Arturo won’t buy pizza, ___________?
2. You don’t practice soccer, ____________?
3. She is going to work tomorrow, _____________?
4. Jessica drank apple juice, _____________?
5. He has played the guitar for 10 years, ____________?
6. You hadn’t arrived, ____________?
7. Luis watches Game of Thrones every Sunday, ___________?
8. They didn’t call you, ____________?
9. My mom will visit us, _____________?
10. The students aren’t going to come to school tomorrow, ______________?

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