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Recognizing The: Perfect Tenses

The document provides examples of verb tenses, including the present perfect, future, and past tenses. It contains 10 sentences with underlined verb phrases and blanks to write the identified tense. The sentences are examples used to practice recognizing and using different verb tenses, specifically the perfect tenses.

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Recognizing The: Perfect Tenses

The document provides examples of verb tenses, including the present perfect, future, and past tenses. It contains 10 sentences with underlined verb phrases and blanks to write the identified tense. The sentences are examples used to practice recognizing and using different verb tenses, specifically the perfect tenses.

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Recognizing the Perfect Tenses


Underline the verb phrase in each sentence. On the blank, write the tense of the verb.
1. The film house has not developed the pictures yet. present perfect
2. Fred will have left before Erin’s arrival. Future tense
3. Florence has been a vary gracious hostess. Past tense
4. Andi had lost her transfer by the end of the bus ride. Past tense
5. By tonight, I will have finished my assignment. Future tense
6. Before the discovery of the buried chest, Joe had not believed
in buried treasure. Past tense
7. We have worked over an hour on one math problem. Present tense
8. Until his college years, Carl had not decided on his career. Past tense
9. The snow plows had cleared our street before the really
heavy snowstorm. Past tence
10. Have the Ortons found their dog yet? Present tense

Complete each sentence by writing the form of the verb indicated in parentheses.
a. (finish, past perfect) We had finished our game before the
Meteors started theirs.
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b. (graduate, future perfect) Margie will have graduated before the spring
semester. AP
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c. (vote, past perfect) Union members had voted before they saw R
the contract.
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d. (exercise, present perfect) We have exercised three times this
week.
e. (talk, past perfect) The manager had talked to the pitcher twice by
that time.
f. (clean, future perfect) I will have cleaned the whole kitchen by the
time Mom returns.
g. (offer, present perfect) Angelica frequently have offerd to help.
h. (produce, future perfect) By the end of this writing course, you will have produced
a plot outline and at least four chapters of your novel.
i. (search, present perfect) The rescuers have searched the area
for hours.

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