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Unit 6
Emlyn, the mechanic, is hungry.
A
The mechanic’s hands are dirty.
The car brakes are not functioning.
The clients are always impatient.
The mechanic is still wearing her uniform. They have not got much time.
She has not washed them yet.
B
The mechanic has not repaired them yet.
She has not eaten her lunch yet.
She has not yet nished her work.
3. He has ______________ come to our class before. ( ever, never)
4. He introduces himself and tells us that he has been a teacher ___________ twenty years.
(for, since)
5. “Have you __________________ seen a hippo?” he asks us. (ever, yet)
6. In thirty minutes, he has _______________ revised the topic ‘wild animals’ in an interesting
way. (yet, already)
Look carefully at the words in bold. They are in the negative
form. We obtain the negative form of the Present Perfect Tense
by adding not between has/have and the past participle of the
verb. The short forms are ‘hasn’t’ and ‘haven’t’.
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Activity 3c: Read and match the sentences below.
Let’s look at the negative form of the
Present Perfect Tense.