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Complete the adventurous travel blogger's poll for her followers. Select ALL the questions that use the correct present perfect verb forms.

The correct answers are Have you ever swum with sharks? and Have you ever slept in an igloo?

The present perfect requires a past participle.

"Flew" is the simple past of fly; the past participle is "flown" (Have you ever flown...?).

"Rode" is the simple past of ride; the past participle is "ridden" (Have you ever ridden...?).

"Swum" and "slept" are correct past participles!

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Perfect tense

The perfect aspect marks an action as complete relative to a point in time. It's formed with have + past participle: I have eaten (present perfect), She had finished (past perfect), They will have arrived (future perfect). The perfect doesn't just say when — it says the action's completion is relevant to the time of reference.

The trickiest English-specific use is the present perfect: I have lived in Paris connects the past to now (you may still live there), while I lived in Paris doesn't. This connection is one of the biggest jumps for learners whose native language doesn't make the same distinction.

Irregular verb

An irregular verb doesn't form its past tense and past participle by adding -ed — it changes shape in unpredictable ways: go → went → gone, eat → ate → eaten, put → put → put, take → took → taken. English has roughly 200 irregular verbs in common use, and many of them are the most frequently used verbs in the language (be, have, do, say, get, make, go, come).

Because the most-used verbs are irregular, you can't avoid them — they show up in every sentence. Memorising the three principal parts (base, past tense, past participle) of the top 100 is one of the highest-leverage moves at A2/B1.

Questions

Questions in English are typically formed by inverting the subject and an auxiliary verb: She can danceCan she dance?. When there's no auxiliary present, English adds do-support: The milk goes in the fridgeDoes the milk go in the fridge?. The same pattern handles wh-questions (Where do you live?) and negative questions (Doesn't he know?).

The trickiest variant is indirect questionsI wonder where he is, not where is he. The inversion drops because the question is embedded inside another clause. Getting this right is one of the bigger jumps from A2 to B1 fluency.

English Grammar Basics

The English Grammar Basics tag marks quizzes and explainers covering the foundations of English grammar — nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, tenses, voice, mood, and basic sentence structure.

If you're starting out or rebuilding from scratch, this is the tag to follow: every challenge under it is designed to land the core rules without burying you in exceptions. Get the basics solid here and the more advanced topics — conditionals, reported speech, inversion — stop looking like a wall of new rules and start looking like extensions of what you already know.

A2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediate

A2 is the elementary level in the CEFR framework, sitting between A1 and B1. At A2 you can handle routine exchanges — ordering food, asking directions, making small talk — and describe your immediate environment in simple sentences.

Grammatically, A2 introduces past simple and past continuous, present perfect for experiences, basic modal verbs, and the first conditional. You're also picking up collocations and learning which verbs take gerunds vs. infinitives. Knowing your level here is the difference between confident progress and frustration: A2 material consolidates the basics; B1 will overwhelm you.

Difficulty: Easy

The Easy difficulty tag marks questions and challenges aimed at beginners — typically A1 or early A2 level. Expect single-rule focus, short sentences, common everyday vocabulary, and one clear correct answer. Distractors usually rule themselves out quickly.

Filter by Easy when you're rebuilding fundamentals, warming up before harder material, or testing whether you've truly internalised a basic rule before moving on. Easy doesn't mean trivial — it means the rule itself is unambiguous and the context doesn't pile on extra complications.