Present perfect (for/since)
“I haven’t seen him ___ we graduated from school.”
since
Choose the most natural partitive for each item:
A ___ of toothpaste
A ___ of chocolate
tube, bar
Choose the correct preposition.
“She’s famous ___ writing mystery novels.”
for
What do we call a group of lines in a poem that are separated by a space?
stanza
Fill in the blank: “She has worked at the hospital ___ 10 years.”
for
Which sentence uses the partitive incorrectly?
A) I ate a slice of cake.
B) She bought a loaf of cheese.
C) He drank a glass of orange juice.
b
Fix the error and explain:
“They were really interested with the results.”
in
List some features of poetry. (at least 2 features)
Rhyme
Rhythm
stanza
line break
intonation
building pictures in your mind
creative
aesthetic.... etc.
Rewrite this sentence using the Present Perfect.
“She started working at the library in 2021.”
She has started working at the library since 2021.
Fill in the blank with a correct partitive:
“There is a ___ of pizza and a ___ of grapes on the table.”
slice, bunch
Choose an adjective and preposition and use it in the sentence.
Answers may vary.
In the middle of the field it stood,
A single tree, misunderstood.
It watched the sky, the wind, the rain,
And whispered stories soft with pain.
No voices came, no footsteps near,
Yet still it stayed year after year.
Its roots grew deep, its branches wide,
With quiet strength it did not hide.
1. How many stanzas are in the poem?
2. List all the rhyming words.
2
stood-understood
rain-pain
near- year
wide-hide