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9. ________________ we go for a movie?

10. ________________ you please open the door?

B. Present Perfect Tense
The present perfect tense is used to show a link between the present and the past. The time
of the action is before now but not specified.
The present perfect is formed by using have or has with the past participle form of verb.
The present perfect tense is used to describe:
• An action that started in the past and continues in the present.

She has lived in Delhi for 10 years. [and she still does]
• A repeated action in an unspecified period between the past and now.
We have visited Singapore many times.
• An action that has just been completed or has been completed in the recent past.

They have just finished the work.
• An action when it is not important to mention the time.
He has read Brian Trucy’s ‘Eat that frog’. (reading is important, not the time of reading)

Fill in the blanks with the present perfect tense of the verb.
1. They ________________ the film twice. (see)

2. He ________________ in this office for many years. (work)

3. The bus ________________ just ________________. (leave)

4. I ________________ a headache. (get)

5. He ________________ just ________________ up. (wake)

6. Tony ________________ all the cookies. (eat)

7. The gardener ________________ some saplings. (plant)

8. I ________________ around the world. (travel)
9. Mother ________________ dinner. (make)

10. Meher ________________ his engineering from IIT. (do)

Pronunciation

Learn how to pronounce these words. Then say them aloud.

malice ma-luhs beckoned beh-knd
pekinese pee-kuh-neez brewing broo-uhng
grievance greev-uhns triumph trai-uhmf

scourge skuhj pnemonia nyoo-moh-nee-uh
avalanche – a-vuh-laansh

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