---
id: 657d5eafe5e79d88d2b6328e
title: Task 9
challengeType: 19
dashedName: task-9
lang: en-US
---

<!-- (Audio) Bob: For nearly a decade now. It started as a hobby, but it's become a significant part of my life. -->

# --description--

The `Present Perfect` tense is used to express past experiences that influence the present.

In this dialogue, Bob talks about the duration of his interest in photography, highlighting its evolution from a hobby to a significant part of his life.

# --questions--

## --text--

How is `Present Perfect` used in Bob's statement?

## --answers--

To describe something that started in the past and is still true or relevant now.

---

To describe something that happened once and is already finished.

### --feedback--

This tense is used for ongoing actions, not one-time events.

---

To describe something that happened in the past with no link to the present.

### --feedback--

This tense suggests ongoing relevance in the present.

---

To describe something that will happen as a plan in the future.

### --feedback--

This tense focuses on past and present, not future plans.

## --video-solution--

1

# --scene--

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```
