Question

Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before! is seeing has seen The spoken phrase ‘no way’ is used for expressing surprise, or for telling someone that you do not believe them, therefore, the speaker is surprised or he or she does not believe someone with whom he or she is talking.Then, in the test sentence ‘Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before!’ we are given the time marker – the adverb ‘before’ that means ‘at a time in the past’. Therefore, the speaker is talking about his or her experiences up to now or about something that happened in the past but is important at the time of speaking. To refer to events in the past but which connect to the present we use the present perfect simple that is formed from the present tense of the verb have and the past participle of a verb: I’ve seen the ballet performance ‘The swan lake’, but I want to see ‘Anna Karenina’.; We haven’t seen before, have we?Thus, for the test sentence ‘Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before!’ we are to choose ANSWER 3 (have seen).

Accepted Answer

see have seen c

Question	Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before!
A	see
B	is seeing
C	have seen
D	has seen
Answer	c
Remark	The spoken phrase ‘no way’ is used for expressing surprise, or for telling someone that you do not believe them, therefore, the speaker is surprised or he or she does not believe someone with whom he or she is talking.Then, in the test sentence ‘Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before!’ we are given the time marker – the adverb ‘before’ that means ‘at a time in the past’. Therefore, the speaker is talking about his or her experiences up to now or about something that happened in the past but is important at the time of speaking. To refer to events in the past but which connect to the present we use the present perfect simple that is formed from the present tense of the verb have and the past participle of a verb: I’ve seen the ballet performance ‘The swan lake’, but I want to see ‘Anna Karenina’.; We haven’t seen before, have we?Thus, for the test sentence ‘Oh, no way, I ___________ (to see) that man before!’ we are to choose ANSWER 3 (have seen).

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