# 70 "They've played music together at a local club several times."
Choices:
A. Use the present perfect when the exact time of a past repeated action isn't important.
B. Use the past perfect to show the sequence of two past actions.
C. Use the future perfect to show the sequence of two future actions.
D. With stative verbs, use the present perfect for actions that began in the past and continue until now.
“They’ve played ... “ = They have played
“have” is an auxiliary verb used to form the present perfect tense in English, and only two of those answer choices are referring to the present perfect, A and D.
So look up present perfect in your text and let me know which is a correct description of how to use the present perfect tense, A or D.
I believe the answer is "A".
Choice "D" does not continue until now.
Nope! This is how the sentence would read if A were correct:
“They played music together at a local club last year.”
D means they started playing together in the past and continued — “several times.”
The correct choice for the given sentence is A. "Use the present perfect when the exact time of a past repeated action isn't important."
In this sentence, the action of playing music together at a local club has happened multiple times in the past, but the specific times are not provided or relevant to the context. The present perfect tense is used to indicate that the action has occurred in the past and has a connection to the present moment.