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I'm asked to complete the following sentence with the appropriate inflected form of the verb:
The book provided a translation: "Have you ever had a swim there?" This indicates experience as far as I can tell, so my answer is the following:
そこで泳いだことがありますか
However, the book answer is 泳ぐ
I'm not sure what I'm missing. I thought the construction was ~たことがある
～したことがある means "have done" with the focus on the thing at issue having happened in the past or having a certain experience.
～することがある means "occasionally/sometimes do", focusing instead on the action being a possible occurrence.
For the grammar point, see, for example, this and this.
そこで泳ぐことがありますか means "Do you swim there?" or more literally "Does it ever happen that you go there for a swim?" Since the English sentence is "Have you ever had a swim there?" You got it right. I think it should be そこで泳いだことがありますか
