Fill in the blanks with a simple past or present perfect tense form.

Both the simple past and the present perfect tenses are used to talk about finished actions or situations. There is an important difference between them. The present perfect tense is a present tense and as such it cannot used with definite past time expressions like yesterday, two hours ago, last week, in 1995 or last year.

1. I ……………………… your father yesterday. (saw / have seen)

2. He ………………………… in 2014. (graduated / has graduated)

3. I ………………………. school at fourteen. (left / have left)

4. She …………………………. a nice apartment in the city. (bought / has bought)

5. I ………………………….. a lion. (never saw / have never seen)

6. ……………………………. the television adaptation of Romeo and Juliet yesterday? (Did you watch / Have you watched)

7. ……………………….. that movie? (Did you see / Have you seen)

8. Yesterday, I ……………………….. my children to the park. (took / have taken)

9. She ………………………… a new job. (found / has found)

10. I ………………………… the parcel in the morning. (received / have received)

Answers

1. I saw your father yesterday.

2. He graduated in 2014.

3. I left school at fourteen.

4. She has bought a nice apartment in the city.

5. I have never seen a lion.

6. Did you watch the television adaptation of Romeo and Juliet yesterday?

7. Have you seen that movie?

8. Yesterday, I took my children to the park.

9. She has found a new job.

10. I received the parcel in the morning.