Question

1. Correct the error in each of the sentences.


1. Have you ever eat Chinese food?

2. Mr Brown already left the office.

3. She has moved to another city last year.

4. We haven’t been abroad since a year.

5. They have sent out the invitations yet.

6. The lesson has started ten minutes ago.

7. Jack hasn’t seen Jill since she has graduated.

8. Did she just leave?


2. Complete the passage with suitable words.


I .............................. always been very fit and healthy, and I have .............................. had a serious illness.

However, a couple of weeks.............................. , I caught the flu. I must admit that until then, I .............................. not realised just how unpleasant the flu could be. I had a high temperature for nearly a week, and my whole body hurt. I don’t think I have .............................. felt so miserable. It’s taking me ages to get my strength back. It really bothers me that I haven’t had enough energy to play football .............................. I got ill. In fact, I have .............................. been to the doctor to ask if it’s normal to feel weak for so long. He says I’ll soon feel better. Apparently I’m lucky. For some people, especially the old and the weak, the flu can be very serious. Doctors have tried .............................. years to find a cure for the flu, but they haven’t found one ............................... . Fortunately, researchers have developed a vaccine which gives effective protection against the disease. According to my doctor, most of his elderly patients have .............................. received their flu shot.


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Answer 1

Resposta:

1. Have you ever eat Chinese food?  

C: Have you ever eaten Chinese food?

2. Mr Brown already left the office.

C: Mr Brown has already left the office.

3. She has moved to another city last year.

C: She moved to another city last year.

4. We haven’t been abroad since a year.

C: It has been a year since last time we have been abroad.

5. They have sent out the invitations yet.

C: They haven’t sent out the invitations yet.

6. The lesson has started ten minutes ago.

C: The lesson started ten minutes ago.

7. Jack hasn’t seen Jill since she has graduated.  

C: Jack hasn’t seen Jill since she had graduated.

8. Did she just leave?

C: Has she just left? / Did she leave a moment ago?

2 -

I have always been very fit and healthy, and I have not had a serious illness.

However, a couple of weeks ago, I caught the flu. I must admit that until then, I had not realized just how unpleasant the flu could be. I had a high temperature for nearly a week, and my whole body hurt. I don’t think I have ever felt so miserable. It’s taking me ages to get my strength back. It really bothers me that I haven’t had enough energy to play football since I got ill. In fact, I have already been to the doctor to ask if it’s normal to feel weak for so long. He says I’ll soon feel better. Apparently, I’m lucky. For some people, especially the old and the weak, the flu can be very serious. Doctors have tried for years to find a cure for the flu, but they haven’t found one yet. Fortunately, researchers have developed a vaccine which gives effective protection against the disease. According to my doctor, most of his elderly patients have already received their flu shot.

Explicação:

1 - Nas perguntas do Present Perfect, o verbo principal sofre flexão (deve ser conjugado no past participle). Nesse caso, o past participle de "eat" é "eaten".

2 - "Already" se posiciona SEMPRE depois do auxiliar do Present Perfect (have ou has). Nesse caso, tivemos que acrescentar o auxiliar para que a frase fizesse sentido.

3 - No Present Perfect, falamos sobre ações que começaram no passado e têm, de certa forma, ligação com o presente. A expressão "a year ago" indica que a ação aconteceu no passado e ficou no passado, sendo assim, a frase teve que ser reescrita no Simple Past.

4 - Aqui, nós reestruturamos a frase da seguinte forma: It has been + o período de tempo + since. Essa estrutura é utilizada no Present Perfect.

5 - "Yet" é usado no Present Perfect em frases negativas e interrogativas. Nesse caso, acrescentamos o auxiliar have + not (haven't) para completar a frase.

6 - Aque acontece o mesmo que na frase 3: 10 minutes ago indica uma ação que começou e terminou no passado. Sendo assim, a frase foi reestruturada para o Simple Past.

7 - O auxiliar "has" é usado no Present Perfect, que, como já foi dito, é um tempo verbal que indica ações que começaram no passado mais ainda fazem parte do presente. Nesse caso, flexionamos o auxiliar para o Past Perfect, pois ao que tudo indica, Jill já se formou.

8 - Nesse caso, o "just" é usado no Present Perfect. Temos duas opções: Reestruturar a frase para o Present Perfect ou usar alguma expressão que indique um curto período de tempo para a mantermos no Simple Present. Te dei as duas opções.

Espero ter ajudado ;)