Present perfect vs Past simple

Present Perfect vs Past Simple

​Grammar in context

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

______ raining for a while, but now it's raining again.

• It stopt

• It stopped

• It's stoppt

• It's stopped

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

The town where I live is different now. _______ a lot.

• It changed

• It changes

• It has changed

• It have changed

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

I studied German at school, but ______ most of it.

• I have forgotten

• I forget

• I forgot

• I forgotten

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

The police __________ three people, but later they let them go.

• has arrested

• arrested

• have arrest

• was arrested

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

What do you think of my English? Do you think _______?

• has it improved

• it improved

• it has improved

• did it imporve

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

________ for a job as a guided tour, but I wasn't successful.

• It applied

• I've applied

• I have applied

• I applied

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

Where's my bike? _______ outside the house, but it's not there now

• It has been

• It were

• It was

• It have been

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences using the present perfect or the past simple:

Quick! We need to call an ambulance. ________ an accident.

• There's been

• It's been

• There was

• it was