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4 Choose one of these detective story writers. Research their life on the Internet
GRAMMAR CHECK
or in a library. Make notes, then use your notes to write a short biography.
Present Perfect: questions
We make Present Perfect questions with have or has (third person singular) + the
past pacticiple.
Where have you been:i I was worried. Have you seen the fingerprint on the wa11:i
Agatha Christ e (born in Devon)
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We can use the Present Perfect to talk about actions in the recent past, when we
Detectives: Miss Marple (British) and Hercule Poirot (Belgian) don't give an exact time.
A news reporter is talking to Inspector Lestrade. Write the reporter's questions
using the Present Perfect.
Reporter: al what I happen I here, Inspector?
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Lestrade: We think that there has been a murder.
Barbara Nadel (born in East London)
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Detectives Cetin kmen and Mehmet Suleyman (Turkish) Reporter: b) you I find I the body?

Lcstrade: Yes, we've found some remains in the timber yard.
Reporter: cl you I arrest I anyone yet?

L e strade: Yes, we have. We've arrested a man called John McFarlane.
Raymond Chandler (born in Chi cago) Reporter d) where I you I take I him?
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Detective Philip Marlowe (American) '"
L e strade: Scotland Yard. We're talking to him at the moment.
Reporter: el what I he I tell I you about the crime?

L e strade: Nothing He's told us a story, but it isn't true.
Reporter: fl Mr Holmes I visit I Deep Dene House?

Lindsey Davis (born in Birmingham)
Detective: Marcus Didio Falco (Ancient Roman) L o strade: Yes, he has. He knows Mr McFarlane.
Rllporter: g) he I help I you with the investigation?

L o strade No, he hasn't. This is a police investigation