Perfect Tenses

In the evenings, I often play chess with my next door neighbor. I ---- chess with him ever since I ----here ten years ago.

• have been playing/moved
• played/moved
• have been playing/have moved
•  played/have been moving

Tags

CCSS.L.K.1F

Ann ---- her driving test three times because she's so bad at parallel parking. But she ---- parallel parking  since last week andI  think she has gotten better at it.

• has failed/has been practicing
• failed/practiced
• failed/was practicing
• fails/practices

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

I have been waiting for the prices of the houses to come down before buying one, but I think I ---- too long and the prices ---- to go up again.

• am waiting / are beginning
• wait / began
• am waiting / began
• have waited / are beginning

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1D

Last year, I experienced how tedious long plane trips could be. I ---- in an airplane for fairly long distances before that, but never as long as when I went to Australia last June.

• have never flown
• didn't fly
• have flown
• had flown

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

This bicycle ---- In our family for fourteen years. My father used it for the first five years, my brother rode it for the next five and I ----it for the last four.

• is / have had
• had been / had
• has been / have had
• has been / had

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

It's a shame you didn't come to London with us last summer, As you --- it before, it ---- a wonderful holiday for you.

• hadn't seen / would have been
• have never seen / will surely be
• didn't see / has been
• didn't see / had been

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

Yesterday at a restaurant, I ---- Sally, an old friend of mine. I had not seen her for years. At first, I ---- her because she ---- at least 20 pounds

•  saw/ didn't recognize / have lost
• saw/ didn't recognize / had lost
• had seen/hadn't recognized / lost
• saw/ haven't recognized / had lost

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

Our committee is trying to raise money for a trip to Washington DC. By the end of the year, we ---- out 5.000 letters asking for contributions.

• would have sent
• have sent
• will have been sending
• will have sent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

By this time tomorrow, I --------doing my homework for Monday.

• finished
• have finished
• will have finished
• finish

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

 Margie just called and said she would be here at 8 o'clock. By the time she gets here, we ----  for her for two hours. 

• will have waited
• will have been waiting
• will be waiting
• will wait

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B