a) Ive known Alice since I was a child.

b) I had breakfast with Ben this morning

c) I was talking to Cathy just before the class started.
d) I like Dan a lot hes one of my best friends.
e) Ive been learning English for about the same number of years as Erica.
f) Ive gone out to dinner with Frank lots of times.
g) Id already met Gina before I joined the class.
h) I used to have a friend named Harry, but we lost touch with each other.
2)Classify the sentences above in the following table of tenses.
Simple

Continuous

Perfect

Perfect
Continuous

Present
Past
3)Match the verb tenses from previous exercise (a-g) with its usages (1-7)
a) Simple Present
b) Simple Past
c) Past Continuous
d) Past Perfect
e) Present Perfect
f) Present Perfect
Continuous
g) Used to

1. You use to talk about habits and routines or things

that are always true.
2. You use to talk about actions or processes that have
happened. Usually describes finished actions.
3. You use to talk about actions or processes that have
been happening. Usually describes unfinished actions.
4. You usually use to talk about activities that were in
progress when something happened.
5. You use to show that one past event happened before
another past event.
6. You use to talk about finished actions in the past with
a specified time.
7. You use to refer to regular or repeated past actions.
You can also use to refer to past states or situations.

4)Write the correct verb tense according to its form:

a. HAVE/HAS + BEEN + -ING FORM= _______________________________
b. SIMPLE PRESENT FORM (like/likes) = _______________________________
c. HAVE/HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE = _______________________________
d. SIMPLE PAST FORM (liked/went) = _______________________________
e. USED TO + INFINITIVE FORM = _______________________________
f. HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE = _______________________________

g. WAS/WERE + -ING FORM = _______________________________