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<!-- (Audio) Brian: That's awesome! How much time have you spent on it? -->

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Let's review the present perfect tense in this task. It is used to describe actions or situations that occurred at an unspecified time before now. It is formed using have/has + past participle. For example, She has visited Paris.

The phrase spend time on is used to describe using a certain amount of time to a specific activity, task, or subject. An example is She spends a lot of time on her homework. The past participle of spend is spent.

Listen to Brian and fill in the blank.

--fillInTheBlank--

--sentence--

That's awesome! How much time have you BLANK on it?

--blanks--

spent

--feedback--

It is the past participle of spend, used with have to form the Present Perfect tense.

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