Present Perfect or Past Simple Verbs

Put the verb into the correct form, present perfect or past simple. The first one has been done as an example.

e.g. It _____________ (stop) raining for a while, but now it’s raining again.

It stopped raining for a while, but now it’s raining again.

1. The town is very different. It ______________(change) a lot.

2. I studied some Ge’ez language at school, but I ______________ (forget) most of it now.

3. The police ___________(arrest) three people, but later they let them go.

4. What do you think of my English? Do you think it _______________ (improve)?

5. I ________________ (apply) for a job as a tourist guide, but I wasn’t successful.

6. A: Where’s my bike?

B: It __________________(be) outside the house, but it’s not there now.

7. Look! There’s an ambulance over there. There _________________(be) an accident.

8. A: Do you know about Samrawit?

B: She ______________(give up) her job.

9. I don’t know where Lelise is. _____you ____________(see) her?

10. When I ___________(get) home last night, I __________(be) very tired and I ____________

(go) straight to bed.

11. Chala _____________ (work) in a bank for 15 years. Then he gave it up.

12. Molla lives in Arba Minch. He _______________(live) there all her life.

13. My grandfather __________(die) before I was born. I ___________ (never meet) him.

14. I don’t know her husband. I ______________(never meet) him.

15. Albert Einstein ____________(be) the scientist who ______________(develop) the theory of

relativity.