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Category: English tenses

Present perfect, present simple, present continuous or past simple?

Read the questions below and decide which answer best fits each space.

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Question 1

How are you? Well, I ... a sore throat, but know I ... good.

Question 2

I ... 3 essays today and it's just 1 p.m.

Question 3

When his mother ..., he ... completely.

Question 4

Betthoven ... a great artist. He ... many popular pieces of music.

Question 5

I ... you ... a teacher.

Question 6

OK, I ... the car. We can go.

Question 7

... the holidays? Of course, we ... such wonderful time.

Question 8

Last news now. Tom Smith ... in his home in London. He ... 88.

Question 9

I can't stand her. She ... talking for a while but now she ... again.

Question 10

Kate and Paul ... each other for a long time.

Question 11

I ... myself. How ... that?

Question 12

He ... in Spain since Friday.

Question 13

Thomas Edison ... the lightbulb. Well, I ...

Question 14

... their own flat or ... one?

Question 15

When ... her

Question 16

How long ... their own flat?

Question 17

How long ... this headache?

Question 18

Since I ... you, I found the world so new.

Question 19

It's the second time I ... here.

Question 20

He ... the best singer the world ...