The Present Perfect Tense

Positive

Subject	has/have	Past Participle
I
You We They	have ‘ve	livedhere for 6 years. beenteaching for years. studieda lot this term.
He	has
She	’s

Negative

Subject	have not / has not	Past Participle
I
	have not
You	haven’t
We	’ve not	boughtanything yet.
They		beenteaching for long. studied a lot this term.
	has not
She	hasn’t
	’s not

Question

have / has	Subject	(ever)	Past Participle
	I
Have	you		riddena horse?
	we
	they	(ever)	readHarry Potter?
	he		metanyone famous?
Has
	she

BBC Learning English – Grammar Challenge

Exercise I. Read the sentence and choose the one option a - c which best fits the space.

1. … in Hong Kong since 2004.

a. She lived

b. She's lived

c. She's live

2. I … him for ages.

a. seen

b. haven't saw

c. haven't seen

3. She's … the boss for 6 months now.

a. has

b. be

c. been

4. We … to France on holiday last year.

a. went

b. 've gone

c. go

5. He … had a lot of problems recently.

a. have

b. 's

c. is

6. She … four marathons. Her first one … in 2001 in Amsterdam.

a. has run / has been

b. ran / was

c. has run / was

Exercise 2. Look at this information about the Harry Potter writer JK Rowling. Choose the best answer from the options below to complete the sentences.

She (1) __________ born on 31 July 1965.

She (2) __________ 7 Harry Potter books and although she says she won't write any more, lots of her fans hope her seventh one won't be her last.

She (3) __________ as an English Language teacher in Portugal for a short time in the early 90s.

Her books about Harry Potter (4) __________ incredibly successful and so far she (5) __________ more than.500 million from them.

She (6) __________ married twice and has two children – one from each marriage.