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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

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

He ... in Spain since Friday.

Question 12

When ... her

Question 13

How long ... their own flat?

Question 14

How long ... this headache?

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

I ... you ... a teacher.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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