This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Tenses – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Tenses Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My mother ..... the newspaper now. A) Read. B) Reads. C) Reading. D) Is reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is reading. 2. Which of the following sentence is of present continuous form? A) Ramesh is go to school with his father. B) They playing with football in the field. C) Sam is asking for more pudding. D) He has gone to his village. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sam is asking for more pudding. 3. She ..... not listen to me. (do)Complete the sentence using the simple present tense. A) Did. B) Does. C) Does not. D) Did not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does. 4. We ..... to school together every morning. A) Walk. B) Walks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walk. 5. SIMPLE FUTURE TENSEThey are going ..... baseball tonight. A) Playing. B) To play. C) Will play. D) Plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To play. 6. Bruno and Marcela met at a medical assembly, which Marcela ..... for a long time. A) Was attending. B) Has been attending. C) Have been attending. D) Had been attending. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been attending. 7. Simple present tense affirmative structure with regular verbs: A) (+) S + V/ V(s/es) + . B) (-) S do/ does + not + V + . C) (?) Do/ Does + S + V?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (+) S + V/ V(s/es) + . 8. Rama was ..... (run) because she was late for her classes.PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE A) Ran. B) Run. C) Runs. D) Running. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Running. 9. I ..... the letter before he arrived. A) Wrote. B) Write. C) Have write. D) Had written. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had written. 10. Since, for, all day-Present A) Simple. B) Progressive. C) Perfect. D) Perfect Progressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect Progressive. 11. Simran had been running in the park. (Identify the correct tense) A) Simple Future tense. B) Past Perfect tense. C) Past perfect continuous tense. D) Past continuous tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past perfect continuous tense. 12. I tried a little of the soup to see how it ..... A) Frets. B) Is tasting. C) Tasted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tasted. 13. While Bill ..... basketball, his mother ..... home. A) Was playing, came. B) Am playing, will come. C) Plays, comes. D) Played, came. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was playing, came. 14. It ..... (rain), the pavement is wet.present perfect continuous tense. A) Has raining. B) Has been raining. C) Raining. D) Have been raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has been raining. 15. It ..... all night. A) Have rained. B) Have rain. C) Has rained. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has rained. 16. They have been seeing movies all night.(convert into future continuous tense) A) They will be seeing movies all night. B) They had been seeing movies all night. C) They are seeing movies all night. D) They will have been seeing movies all night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will be seeing movies all night. 17. You ..... (jump) all over the place. A) Am jumping. B) Are jump. C) Is jumping. D) Are jumping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are jumping. 18. I ..... in Taman Idaman which is 3 kilometres away from town. A) Live. B) Lives. C) Lived. D) Living. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Live. 19. I ..... ( fly) to Spain last 2 years. I ..... ( buy) an expensive watch there. A) Flow, buyed. B) Flown, bought. C) Flew, buyed. D) Flew, bought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flew, bought. 20. What is base form or V1 form of "Allowed" ? A) Allows. B) Allow. C) Allowing. D) Do not exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allow. 21. The Pacific markets ..... extremely competitive since the manufacturing capacity of many Far Eastern countries ..... to improve at the turn of the decade. A) Are becoming / begins. B) Had become / would begin. C) Became / have begun. D) Were becoming / would have begun. E) Have become / began. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Have become / began. 22. You ..... mushroom A) Like. B) Likes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Like. 23. The tense with Format:will have + V3 A) Present perfect. B) Future perfect. C) Past perfect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Future perfect. 24. All the students ..... the class work when the teacher came in. A) Are doing. B) Were doing. C) Will be doing. D) Have done. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were doing. 25. What is past tense? A) Past tense is an action. B) Past tense is an action which is done in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past tense is an action which is done in the past. Next →Related QuizzesVerbs QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesTenses Quiz 2Tenses Quiz 3Tenses Quiz 4Tenses Quiz 5Tenses Quiz 6Tenses Quiz 7Tenses Quiz 8Tenses Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books