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English_ Tenses

Practice Test 1

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.She ________ the prize because she wrote the best composition.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.The last days of the holiday ________ by rain.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:The train is never late. It ______ (always/leave) on time.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Nothing will make him ___ back to her.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.The dentist _________ my tooth out the other day.

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Between 1607 and 1733, Englishmen . . . . . . . . thirteen colonies along the east coast of North America and by 1750, nearly two million men, women and children . . . . . . . . in these colonies.

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The barber . . . . . . . . his finger while he . . . . . . . . off my hair.

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Next weekend, I . . . . . . . . my proficiency exam, so I . . . . . . . . more or less 300 questions so far.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate answer from the options given below:I __________ a lot of money yesterday. I __________ an expensive watch.ย 

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Use the verb in the correct form:I don’t understand this sentence. What _____ (thisword/mean)?

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.While he _____ to school his elder brother ___ from the Institute. His brother is a teacher now.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.How much money ______ yesterday?

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Mohan and Shankar promised . . . . . . . . hard.

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The cattle were . . . . . . . . in the field.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.When I was in Sri Lanka, I ___Negombo, Beruwela and Nilaveli.

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It . . . . . . . . a nice day; therefore, we went swimming.

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During the summer months, the monastery . . . . . . . . very busy, for it is visited by thousands of people who . . . . . . . . the pass in cars.

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Correct the underlined part of the sentence, if necessary:Where have you been last evening?

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Rohan, I . . . . . . . . seen you for a long time, How . . . . . . . .?

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Hopefully, wewill beable to complete the buildingbeforethe rainy season setsinChoose the option that indicates the error in the sentence.

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The oldest Mesoamerican calendar inscriptions . . . . . . . . from the site of San Jose Mogote in the Oaxaca Valley, with day signs that . . . . . . . . from 600 BC.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.A: Were you singing when I came in?B: Yes, I ________.

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Don’t make a noise, she . . . . . . . ..

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Unless I have a quiet room I . . . . . . . . successful.

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.All the business letters _____ yesterday. They ____ to the post office immediately.

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.In 1834, the Houses of Parliament with the exception of Westminster Hall ____ by fire, they ____ later.

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By the end of this month, he . . . . . . . . as one of the assistants of Bill Gates for five years.

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Will you go . . . . . . . . a movie?

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Usually my working day ___ at 8.30 sharp.

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The bus . . . . . . . . before we reached the bus stand.

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Fill in the blank.No vehicles ______ to park here

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Because of Istanbul’s geographical location, it . . . . . . . . a place of trade since civilization . . . . . . . ..

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Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.Jasmine is working as a dental assistant. What she does is________ people’s teeth.

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Fill in the blanks 1 and 2 using the appropriate words/phrases:My parents __1__ (live) in Bristol. They were born there and have neverlived anywhere else. Where __2__ (your parents/live)?

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Fill in the blank with the appropriate verb.A diary ______ to Mary for her thirteenth birthday lastmonth.

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The given statement has some error. From the given options, which is the correct way of writing the given sentence?He left for America next week.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.A man ________ by the police last night.

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Mr Porter . . . . . . . . to clip the business in front of his house when his son Don . . . . . . . . around the corner of the garden.

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Select appropriate option to fill in the blank:Why ________ (Sue/resign) from her job? Didn’t she enjoy it?

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.It ___ him 20 minutes to get to the work usually.

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Complete the sentence with one of the following verbs in the correct form:come/ get/ happen/ look/ make/ start/ stay/ try /work’You hard today.’ ‘Yes, I have a lot to do.’

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Identify the tense used in the following sentence:I will be repairing the roof.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Mary _____ to the bank on Monday.

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Mother . . . . . . . . me to watch time and return soon, I replied, Please don’t worry, if . . . . . . . . late tonight.

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Choose the option which completes the following sentence:The library ______ behind the football stadium.

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Choose suitable option to complete the conversation:A:I’ve got a headache.B:Have you? Wait there and ___________ an aspirin for you. (I/get)

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In Asia, for many centuries, physicians . . . . . . . . foot massage as an aid to the treatment of major health problems.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Mary said she ____ him driving fast, and asked him to slow down.

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Choose the correct form of the verb given in the bracket that completes the sentence correctly:We _____ our lunch half an hour ago. (Finish)

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Read the given situation and select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank:You arranged to play tennis today. Now you decide that you don’t want to play.You say: I don’t think ________________

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Fill in the blank using the most appropriate future tense form.You will get drenched if you __________ out.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.They can’t help us _____ the house.

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.Yesterday when I _____ her she _____ me about you.

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They so many hotels in the region in recent years that gradually they the natural beauty of the area.

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Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence.I _________ her a joke but even that didn’t make her smile.

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Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb given in the brackets:Julia is very good at languages. She ____ (speak) four languages very well.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.”Nobody _____ in that country,” said Pinocchio to his friend.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.What time are you _________ to school tomorrow?

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He . . . . . . . . to unlock the door to his flat because the telephone . . . . . . . ..

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Helen . . . . . . . . her driving test five times so far without success, but she . . . . . . . . yet.

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More than two hundred people . . . . . . . . the tower when the bomb . . . . . . . . in one of the dustbins.

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Frame a suitable statement using the given information:(I / be / at work ) at 10:30 tomorrow morning.

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Before Petar Preradovic . . . . . . . . poems in his native Croatian, he . . . . . . . . all his poems in German.

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Select an appropriate option to complete the sentence:Your friend is worried because she has lost an important letter.YOU: Don’t worry about the letter. I’m sure __________ it. (you/find)FRIEND: I hope so.

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When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli . . . . . . . . a map of Mars in 1877, he . . . . . . . . a large number of straight linear features, which he called “canali”, that is, channels.

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Frame suitable statement using the given information:(I / be/ bed ) at 5 o’clock tomorrow morning.

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On my friend’s farm, they . . . . . . . . an alarm clock because the cockerel . . . . . . . . at five o’clock every morning without fail.

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More than a million people . . . . . . . . the new superstore since it . . . . . . . . last month.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.The Mona Lisa __________ by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Fill in the blank with the correct form of future tense of the verb given in the brackets.Tomorrow my mother _______ (take) us to the movie.

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After years of cheap credit worldwide, the U.S. Federal Reserve . . . . . . . . its short-term rates for two years, and now comes new signs that long-term rates, in the end, . . . . . . . . to rise, too.

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Fill in the blank with a suitable option:The accused pretended that he ______________ the lawyer’s question.

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Complete the statement using the most appropriate option:’Did you phone Ruth?”Oh no, I forgot. _________________.’

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Make a sentence from the words in brackets using the appropriate tense:The month of October is going on and you are talking about Ann’s earning of last year.____________________ (Ann / not / earn / so much / last year)

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The Cambrian . . . . . . . . an important moment in the history of life on earth and a time of radical evolutionary experimentation when many animals first . . . . . . . . in the fossil record.

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The phrase “postmodernism” . . . . . . . . about fifty years ago, but most people still . . . . . . . . what it means.

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Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb.It _____ all year round here.

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Which of the options given below may suitably replace the phrase printed in bold to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence requires no correction, mark (d) as the answer.The scientific method as a rote item in the syllabus had little valued.

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Replace the underlined verb form with the correct option:The new art gallery has beeninaugurated yesterday.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.We often ________ dinner at six.

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Fill in the blank using the most appropriate future tense forms.When ___________? I have to pick my daughter from school.

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The Pacific markets . . . . . . . . extremely competitive since the manufacturing capacity of many Far Eastern countries . . . . . . . . to improve at the turn of the decade.

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Choose the correct simple past or past continuous form of the verb from the alternatives given.Every morning Gandhiji ________ for a walk.

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Choose the most appropriate option:You don’t know where Liz’s mother lives currently.Ask Liz questions about herself and her family.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.She never ________ meat.

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Frame a suitable question using the given words:A friend has just come back from holiday. You ask him about it. Write your question.(what / do in the evenings?)

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Fill in the blanks using the most appropriate future tense forms.What time _________ the train ___________ for Hyderabad?

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Fill in the blank using the appropriate form of the given words:Are you hungry? _____ something to eat? (you/want)

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My mother . . . . . . . . her optician tomorrow because her eyesight . . . . . . . . worse since she got this computing job.

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:I ______ to do it but I ______ no time. I was very busy.

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The full impact of the strike . . . . . . . . till next week, by which time present stocks . . . . . . . ..

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Don’t disturb me. I . . . . . . . . my homework.

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By 1840, the US Army . . . . . . . . most Eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word:He _______ the Defense Minister from 1989-95.

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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:Bill ______ his girlfriend now. That’s the third time he _______ her this evening.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Alice _____back from America last month.

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It’s been one week since the floods . . . . . . . ., but still aid workers . . . . . . . . people.

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The football team that . . . . . . . . last year’s championship . . . . . . . . little chance of winning it again this year.

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.Where ________ yesterday?

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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.Houses ____ very quickly now.

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