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Exercises with answers, PDF worksheets with keys and grammar rules with examples.

Exercises with answers:

Present perfect exercises (all forms)

Exercise 1: Correct mistakes.
Exercise 2: Complete the dialogue.

Present perfect exercises (questions)

Exercise 1: Make questions with words in brackets.
Exercise 2: Complete the dialogue between Ben and his mum.

Present perfect exercises (negative)

Exercise 1: Respond with negative sentences.
Exercise 2: What hasn't Matt done since he returned from his trip round the world?

Free PDF worksheets to download:

Present perfect PDF exercise 1 (rewrite)

Rewrite sentences in the present perfect simple.

Present perfect PDF exercise 2 (complete)

Complete sentences with verbs in brackets and signal words.

Present perfect PDF exercise 3 (mixed forms)

Complete a conversation.

Present perfect PDF exercise 4 (negative)

What has Matt not done since he got back from his trip round the world?

Present perfect PDF exercise 5 (dialogues)

Complete questions or answers to make short dialogues.

Present perfect PDF exercise 6 (questions)

Make questions to complete the conversation between Ben and his mum.

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Present perfect continuous exercises + PDF worksheets

• I have been watching TV since I got up. Sam has been working for us for three years.

Present perfect simple vs. continuous exercises + PDF worksheets

• We have tried to contact you several times. We have been trying to contact you since the morning.

Present perfect vs. past simple exercises + PDF worksheets

• I have just changed my job. Sarah changed her job last year.

Present perfect passive exercises PDF

• We have been invited to a party. The shop has been closed since January.

Present perfect PDF rules

The present perfect simple is formed with the present simple form of the verb to have (have, has) and the past participle (cooked, written).

Positive statement: I have cooked, I have written , He has cooked, He has written (I've cooked, He's cooked)
Negative statement: I have not played (I haven't played), He has not done (He hasn't done)
Question: Have you worked?
Negative question: Have you not bought? (Haven't you bought?)

Use of the present perfect simple:

1. We use it to talk about activities or states that started in the past and still continue.

We have lived here since 2001.
She has known me for more than two years.
I haven't seen her since Christmas.
How long have they been here?

It is often used with expressions indicating that the activities come up to now, such as: for 10 years, since 1995, all week, all the time, always, lately, recently ...
We have always worked in York. (We still work in York.)
It has been quite cold lately. (It is still cold.)

2. We use it to describe some experience that happened in the past (the time is not given), but the effects are important now.
She has been to London. (And so she knows London.)

Compare:
I have already been to Greece. (experience - And I want to go somewhere else now.)
I have been in Greece for two weeks. (state - I am stlill in Greece.)

When we use this tense to express some experience, we can use following adverbs - ever, never, already, often, occassionaly, yet, before ......
Have you ever tried it?
She has never read this book.
We haven't seen it yet.
Have you fallen off a bike yet?
I haven't met her before.

3. It is used for activities that have a present result.
The bus hasn't arrived. (It did not arrived on time and we are still waiting now.)
I have bought a new house. (I did it last month and it means that now I have a new address.)

For such activities we often use these adverbs - yet, already, just.
They haven't finished their homework yet. (They can't go out now.)
Has she signed it yet? (Can I take the document?)
I've already sent the letter. (There is no need to go to the post-office.)
We have just heard the news. (We know about it.)