Exercise - Present Perfect and Past Simple Complete each paragraph with one set of verbs, using the present perfect or past simple. have/not come/tell become/have/hear know/meet/start A) I Laura Palmer since we both ... work on the same day at Thames College about five years ago. She is one of the smartest people I . ever B) YOu . parents! Jenny C) The plumber the good news yet? Jenny and Michael just ... a baby girl last night. me this moming, 'T'll be back to finish the work as soon as some lunch. But now it's past three o'clock and he still back.

To complete the exercise, we'll use the present perfect or past simple forms of the given verbs: ### A) **Verbs:** know/meet/start I **have known** Laura Palmer since we both **met** on the same day at Thames College about five years ago. She is one of the smartest people I have ever **known**. ### B) **Verbs:** become/have/hear Have you **heard** the good news yet? Jenny and Michael **became** parents! Jenny **had** a baby girl last night. ### C) **Verbs:** have/not come/tell The plumber **told** me this morning, "I'll be back to finish the work as soon as I have some lunch." But now it's past three o'clock, and he still **has not come** back. ### Explanation: 1. **Present Perfect** is used to talk about experiences or actions that have occurred at an unspecified time and are linked to the present: - "have known" and "have ever known" refer to a period from the past to the present. - "have heard" and "has not come" indicate actions linked to the present. 2. **Past Simple** is used for actions that happened at a specific time in the past: - "met" specifies a particular point in the past. - "became" and "had" indicate actions completed at a known time. These distinctions clarify the timeline of the mentioned events and their relevance to the present context.