HPE1043: Review of Present Perfect Tense

True or false?

The present perfect tense is used to describe actions that began in the past. Usually, the actions being described are still continuing into the present.

• True

• False

The present perfect tense is formed by:

• "has/have" + [past participle]

• "had been" + [past participle]

Select the example of the present perfect tense.

• had seen

• has seen

• has saw

Select a phrase which contained verb in the present perfect tense.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

• Don't take the wrong side

• of an argument just because

• your opponent

• has taken the right side

Select the sentence containing an example of the present perfect tense.

• I have climbed Mount Kinabalu.

• I climbed Mount Kinabalu.

• I had climbed Mount Kinabalu.

Select a phrase that contained verb in the present perfect tense.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. 

• Poets have been

• mysteriously silent on

• the subject of cheese

Select the sentence containing an example of the present perfect tense.

• If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.

• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Select a phrase that contained verb in the present perfect tense.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

• Only the dead

• have seen the end

• of the war

True or false?

The sentence below contains an example of the present perfect tense.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

• True

• False

Select the first verb in the present perfect tense.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

• has outrun

• have guided