Page 69 Test review Simple past, the present perfect , or the present continuous of the verb given .

 

Lately i have been cooking so much 

have is non action verb 

take  ( action verb ) 

How long have you been doing that ? ( in progress ) 

Time period is lately ( How long have you  been doing that 

8 . Started ( I started to take lessons about six months ago . 

So far i have jumped out of airplanes about 10 to 20 times ( repetitions must use past , not the continious ) 

I have never even thought about it . 

something that did not happen in the past few months .

I have been working overtime alot lately. For over the past month 

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has been donating ( amount of time ) 

also not wrong 

donate money for twenty years 

in definite past time ( e.g Has donated ? )

may be (  I still in progress ) ( e.g has been donating )

you have to be clear that what tense you use  

e.g we wondered ( past to present ) 

wondered in the past only 

for the past two months 

still doing progress 

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He has always wanted to travel to china.

 

I have been trying .

I have tried .