English Grammar Tenses Exercises Test

These English grammar tenses exercises with answers cover present, past, and future tense. Test your knowledge of English grammar tenses with these exercises and quizzes.

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English Tenses Test With Answers

Question 1: The sun is ________ brightly.

(A) sining

(B) shineing

(C) sinning

(D) shining

Question 2: I ________ to office by bus every day.

(A) comes

(B) coming

(C) am coming

(D) come

Question 3: All the books in this library ________ in good condition.

(A) is

(B) are

(C) having

(D) was

Question 4: One ________ there at 10 o’ clock, it is office time.

(A) has to be

(B) should be

(C) can be

(D) ought to be

Question 5: ________ see the red light?

(A) Did you not

(B) You did not

(C) Didn’t you

(D) Didn’t you not

Question 6: The letter has already ________ . It must have reached by now.

(A) send

(B) sent

(C) been send

(D) been sent

Question 7: Everyone ________ to remove their shoes outside temple.

(A) have

(B) has

(C) is

(D) are

Question 8: “Early to bed and early to rise ________ a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

(A) make

(B) makes

(C) shall make

(D) made

Question 9: It ________ that some of the students are involved in malpractice.

(A) is learning

(B) has been learnt

(C) learns

(D) is learned

Question 10: ________ by hunger, he stole a piece of bread.

(A) Driven

(B) Been driven

(C) Driving

(D) Drives

Question 11: I ________ in Delhi last week.

(A) am

(B) was

(C) did

(D) reach

Question 12: Vijay ________ four languages.

(A) to speak

(B) spoken

(C) speaks

(D) speak

Question 13: She ________ out five minutes ago.

(A) went

(B) has gone

(C) had gone

(D) was gone

Question 14: I ________ a good film yesterday

(A) saw

(B) has seen

(C) have seen

(D) was seen

Question 15: Naman usually ________ cricket in the evening.

(A) is play

(B) plays

(C) played

(D) play

Question 16: The showroom ________ by now.

(A) open

(B) will open

(C) will be open

(D) will have opened

Question 17: Mala and her friends ________ on a picnic today.

(A) went

(B) has gone

(C) had gone

(D) have gone

Question 18: Manoj ________ a song in the party.

(A) sing

(B) sings

(C) sang

(D) sung

Question 19: We regret to inform You that We ________ just ________ our new house.

(A) are, selling

(B) has, sold

(C) have, sold

(D) had, sold

Question 20: Convert the sentence in Past Perfect Tense.

“She writes on the blackboard.”

(A) She written on the blackboard

(B) She has written on the blackboard

(C) She had wrote on the blackboard

(D) She had written on the blackboard

Question 21: She went out of the kitchen ________ .

(A) had sung

(B) singing

(C) is singing

(D) was singing

Question 22: I usually ________ to college but today ________ in my uncle’s car.

(A) walk, go

(B) walking, will go

(C) walk, went

(D) walked, went

Question 23: See, that gardener ________ the flowers from the garden.

(A) plucked

(B) has plucked

(C) plucking

(D) is plucking

Question 24: Have you ever been to Kashmir? Yes, I ________ there last month.

(A) was going

(B) went

(C) have gone

(D) did go

Question 25: You ________ not ________ late to office now onward.

(A) are, be

(B) will, be

(C) were, to

(D) will, to

Question 26: I am reading a book ________ by Shri Pannalal Patel.

(A) to be written

(B) written

(C) was written

(D) writing

Question 27: Vandana had swept the floor when I ________ .

(A) came

(B) have came

(C) had came

(D) have come

Question 28: If it ________, we shall stay at home.

(A) raining

(B) rained

(C) rains

(D) is raining

Question 29: Bharati ________ the Prime Minister next month.

(A) is met

(B) will meeting

(C) is going to meet

(D) is meet

Question 30: If I ________ a more reliable car, I ________ to Spain rather than fly.

(A) had .. had driven

(B) had.. would drive

(C) would have had .. would drive

(D) would have .. would drive

Question 31: ________ a telephone call, the driver turned up for extra duty.

(A) having got

(B) being got

(C) having been got

(D) had got

Question 32: When I went to the doctor, a patient’s temperature ________ by his compounder.

(A) measured

(B) was being measured

(C) had measured

(D) was measured

Question 33: The officer ________ the car to speak to the driver.

(A) stopped

(B) had stopped

(C) stops

(D) All above

Question 34: See, that gardener _______ the roses from the garden.

(A) plucked

(B) has plucked

(C) plucking

(D) is plucking

Question 35: We stayed at a very big hotel. ________ 500 rooms.

(A) There were

(B) There is

(C) There are

(D) There was

Question 36: Identify Tense of sentence:

‘Tomorrow we are holding a party in our hotel’

(A) Present continuous

(B) Present perfect continuous tense

(C) Present participle

(D) Present perfect

Question 37: Identify Tense of sentence:

‘I had already worked for several years before I got married’.

(A) Past Continuous

(B) Past Progressive

(C) Present Perfect

(D) Past Perfect

Question 38: Identify Tense of sentence:

‘The cold wave had lasted two full weeks’.

(A) The Past Perfect

(B) The Simple Past Tense

(C) The Past Progressive

(D) The Past Perfect Progressive Tense

Question 39: The percentage of good leaders ________ very small.

(A) is

(B) were

(C) had

(D) are

Question 40: A grand festival ________ in the next January.

(A) shall celebrate

(B) would celebrate

(C) is celebrated

(D) will be celebrated