This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Tenses – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Tenses Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose the past tense for the word:Swim A) Swam. B) Swimmed. C) Swimming. D) Swims. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swam. 2. Fill the blanks with proper tense form from the given options:The mobile ..... twice before I picked it up. A) Is Ringing. B) Was Ringing. C) Rang. D) Will Ring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rang. 3. Select the tense of the sentence:She lives in the Philippines. A) Simple past. B) Simple present. C) Simple future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple present. 4. Nobody will be coming to your help? A) Simple future. B) Future perfect. C) Future continuous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Future continuous. 5. PAST CONTINUES TENSE I ..... [do] homework yesterday A) Am doing. B) Were doing. C) Is doing. D) Was doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was doing. 6. V2 (verb's second form) of "Do" ..... A) Did. B) Done. C) Doing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did. 7. What ..... next weekend, Yoshi? A) You doing. B) Are you doing. C) Do you do. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are you doing. 8. She has been cooking for a while now. (Identify the tense) A) Present perfect tense. B) Present perfect continuous tense. C) Simple Present tense. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present perfect continuous tense. 9. By 2050 scientists ..... a cure for cancer A) Will have found. B) Will be founding. C) Will be found. D) Will have founding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will have found. 10. Just a minute! I ..... that word in the dictionary. A) Am looking. B) Looking. C) Looks. D) Look. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Am looking. 11. He wanted to know more about the job. (Change into simple present) A) He wants to know more about the job. B) He has been wanting to know more about the job. C) He wanted to know more about the job. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wants to know more about the job. 12. Identify the tense of the following sentence. We went to the beach. A) Present. B) Past. C) Future. D) Present continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past. 13. They hope the ..... all the tenses by the time the exam comes. A) Will have mastered. B) Will have been mastered. C) Will have master. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will have mastered. 14. "The anthropologist has been studying that tribe for the last five years." It means ..... He ..... that tribe. A) Studied. B) Had studied. C) Is still studying. D) Has finished studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is still studying. 15. Everything on the menu ..... delicious. A) Is tasting. B) Frets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frets. 16. Select the sentence with future continuous tense:- A) Can I be staying?. B) I am be staying?. C) Believe me i am staying?. D) Will I be staying?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Will I be staying?. 17. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain ..... in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority ..... with any offence, let alone convicted. A) Have been held / would not be charged. B) Were held / are not charged. C) Will be held / were not being charged. D) Being held / had not been charged. E) Are being held / have not been charged. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Are being held / have not been charged. 18. After Jane ( finish) ..... her homework, she watched TV A) Were finished. B) Had finished. C) Was finishing. D) Finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had finished. 19. Complete the sentences using the simple past tense.She ..... yesterday. A) Coming. B) Was coming. C) Came. D) Comes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Came. 20. It ..... lunch time soon.[simple future] A) Will be. B) Would be. C) Shall be. D) Should be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will be. 21. In 2016 my dad ..... (sell) his old motorbike. A) Solded. B) Selled. C) Sold. D) Used to sell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sold. 22. State right or wrong:Sheila didn't come back since yesterday. A) Wrong. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct. 23. The patient ..... before the doctor came. A) Had died. B) Has die. C) Have die. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had died. 24. The students ..... playing football at 3 PM tomorrow A) Will be playing. B) Were playing. C) Playing. D) Are playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will be playing. 25. The chief guest had been making his speech since 4 o'clock. A) Future perfect continuous. B) Present perfect continuous. C) Past perfect continuous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past perfect continuous. 26. I work in Mumbai. (Identify the tense) A) Simple Past tense. B) Simple present tense. C) Present Perfect tense. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple present tense. 27. Choose the correct pair: A) Knife:knifes. B) Match:matchs. C) Lady:ladys. D) Photo:photos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photo:photos. 28. Reema ..... in this hotel till next Sunday.[Future continuous] A) Staying. B) Stayed. C) Will be staying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be staying. 29. Is she always ..... with children and animals? A) Being so patient. B) So patient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) So patient. 30. They ..... here in two hours. A) Will be. B) Be. C) Been. D) Be will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will be. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesVerbs QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesTenses Quiz 1Tenses Quiz 2Tenses Quiz 3Tenses Quiz 4Tenses Quiz 5Tenses Quiz 6Tenses Quiz 7Tenses Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books