Present perfect vs. past simple – Exercise 229

Choose the best option.

I to London but I to Frankfurt. It is a big city in Germany. I there two months ago. I a lot since I got a new job. I from another business trip to Brussels. I a lot of new people recently. Some of them my friends. We in different countries but we and photos almost every day.

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Present perfect or past simple — reference

The present perfect is a present tense and the past simple is a past tense.

If we are talking about some period of time that started and ended in the past (yesterday, last week, two years ago, last summer), we use the past simple (did, went, said, worked etc.).

If the result of the action has to do with the present moment and there is no indication of the finished time period, we use the present perfect (have done, have gone, have been etc.)

This table of the words-indicators will help you choose between the present perfect or the past simple:

Present Perfect	Past Simple
since for ever never just already recently so far these days	last (last Sunday, last month, last year…) ago (five days ago, a week ago) when (when I was a child) in + year on + date (in 1988, in June, on Monday, on April 26)

Present Perfect

Past Simple

since
for
ever
never
just
already
recently
so far
these days

last (last Sunday, last month, last year…)
ago (five days ago, a week ago)
when (when I was a child)

in + year
on + date
(in 1988, in June, on Monday, on April 26)

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