Номер 5, страница 43 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Вербицкая, Маккинли

Unit 5. Keeping up-to-date. Grammar and reading - номер 5, страница 43.

Условие.

5 Match sentences 1–3 with the uses of the Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous (a–c).

1 I’ve been writing songs all day. I’m exhausted.

2 I’ve written four new songs.

3 I’ve been writing songs since I was sixteen.

a An action that started in the past but is still continuing.

b A past activity that may be continuing. It has a result in the present.

c A finished action.

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Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

We use the Present Perfect Simple to talk about:

• news and recent actions.

We have made a demo CD!

• a finished action if we don’t say exactly when it happened. We may say how many times it happened.

We have already played more than thirty gigs.

We use the Present Perfect Continuous to talk about:

• an action that started in the past but is still continuing.

I have been writing songs since I was sixteen.

• a past activity with a result in the present. It may be continuing.

I have been writing songs all day – I’m exhausted.

We use since to say when the situation started.

We use for to say how long this situation has been true.

Решение.