The document provides examples of using the present perfect simple and present perfect progressive tenses in sentences. It includes sentences using each tense form grouped under different headings like 'A' through 'G'. The examples illustrate actions that are ongoing or completed at an unspecified time in the present.

1. Present Perfect Simple
or
Present Perfect Progressive

2. Present Perfect
Simple
have / has + V
Present Perfect
Progressive
have / has + been +
V1 ing

3. have / has + V
have / has + been + V
ing

4. ‘Grammar
Points’

5. 3. She has been fishing for an hour.
4. She has caught a crab.
5. He has been cooking some cake.
6. He has made a pound of cake.
7. She has been re-painting her
house for hours.
8. She has painted a wall.
A

6. 1. Do you know I have been waiting
for an hour
2. Hurray! I have finished this report
at last!
3. Wow! I have driven 450 kilometres
today!
4. I have been studying all night long!
5. He has travelled a lot in life.
6. He has been travelling but now
he’s on the way home.
B

7. 2. have not (haven’t) written
3. have not (haven’t) been waiting
4. have been taking
5. have not (haven’t) had
6. have been trying
7. have found
8. have been studying
C

8. 9. have just taken
10. have not (haven’t) had
11. have never worked
12. have been working
13. have been revising
14. has been
C

9. 1. He has put away the dishes.
3. He has not cleaned the gas
cooker yet.
4.
5. He has not swept the stairs yet.
6. He has already ironed the clothes.
7. He hasn’t emptied the bin yet.
8. He has already vacuumed the
floor.
9. He hasn’t cleared the table yet.
D

10. 2. She has been painting.
3. She has been watering the flowers.
4. She has been cleaning the
windows.
5. She has been mending the gate.
6. She has been burning the rubbish.
7. She has been cutting the grass.
E

11. 1. have come
3. have been driving
4. have never had
5. have been
6. have managed
7. have done / have been doing
8. have been doing
9. have looked / have been looking
10. haven’t found
F

12. 1. Present Perfect Progressive
2. Present Perfect Simple
3. Present Perfect Progressive
4. Present Perfect Simple
G

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