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Drew: (4) (you / enjoy) them?

Joel: Yes, the stories (5) (be) interesting, and I
(6) (like) the characters a lot.
Drew: Well, it’s your lucky day! There’s a new TV show with a really good actor as Sherlock

Holmes. (7) (you / see) it yet?
Joel: No, I (8) (not watch) much TV recently. When is it on?

5.7 Present Perfect and Simple Past: Incomplete or Complete Time

Present Perfect Simple Past
Meg has had that job since 2012. Meg had a bad cold last week.
They have lived in Texas for a year. They lived in Texas for a year.
He hasn’t texted me this week. He didn’t text me yesterday.

1. a. Use the present perfect for actions or a. She has worked at the school for 10 years.
situations that started in the past and (She still works there.)
continue to the present. Use for or since
to express the time period.
b. Use the simple past for actions or b. She worked at the school for 20 years, but she
situations that started and finished in the retired last year.
past. (She does not work there anymore.)
2. a. Use the present perfect for a time period a. I haven’t had breakfast this morning.
that is incomplete. (It’s still morning.)
b. Use the simple past for a time period that b. I didn’t have breakfast this morning.
is complete. (It’s now afternoon.)

6 Complete each sentence with the simple past or present perfect form of the verbs
in parentheses.

1. This store has been (be) open for two months. It’s already very popular.
2. The store (be) open for 12 years. It closed last August.

3. Carla (use) my laptop yesterday, but she hasn’t returned it yet.

4. I (use) my laptop every day since I bought it.

5. We (live) in Florida for ten years. Then we moved to California.

6. My brother and his wife (live) in this house since 2005.

7. Linda (teach) for 15 years. She loves her job.

8. My brother (teach) for six years before he became a pilot.

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