Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Can I leave a message? for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from the listening and match the adverbs in bold to the meanings (1-4) below. Which tense is used with each adverb?

Answer

  1. 3 (yet → present perfect)
  2. 2 (already → present perfect)
  3. 1 (just → present perfect)
  4. 4 (still → present simple – could also use the present perfect with a negative verb, or the present continuous with an active verb)