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Tenses questions with answers

1,005 multiple-choice questions. Open any question for its answer and explanation.

  1. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the past tense of the verb given in the brackets. We_______(surprise) at the news of her defeat.
  2. Choose the correct word/phrase to complete the sentence. Most animals in the zoos ______ in captivity.
  3. Rewrite the following sentence using the correct tense of the verbs givenin the brackets: Sanchit (standing) across the road and (wait) for me. When he (see) me, he (wave) to me. I could not understand what he (say) because the moving vehicles (make) so much noise.
  4. Fill in the blank with the verb in its correct form: I _______ very tired. So I lay down on the bed and went to sleep. (be)
  5. Fill in the blank using the correct tense form: Proteins ________ carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
  6. Choose the best form of the verb given in the bracket to complete the sentence:When we heard the good news, we were ____________. (delight)
  7. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. You ______ always _______ your things. Put them into their bag.
  8. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct forms: Ann _________ me her address but I'm afraid I _________ it. (give, lose)
  9. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the present tense of the verb given in the brackets.He speaks as the one who ______ (know).
  10. Fill in the blanks using correct tense forms : Joe's cat _____ into the river yesterday.
  11. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. "Where _____you born?" "I ____born in India.
  12. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. In 1992 I _____ for the Italian President when he _____ to France.
  13. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. Take your umbrella. It ___.
  14. Last year he almost . . . . . . . . because he . . . . . . . . his social life a little too much.
  15. Choose the correct simple past or past continuous form of the verb from the alternatives given. He came into the room and _______ down at his desk.
  16. We . . . . . . . . football for two hours and . . . . . . . . to a restaurant for a meal, afterwards.
  17. Fill in the blank with a suitable tense form: We _________ with our grandparents next week.
  18. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. ________ me with my suitcase, please?
  19. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. The doctor says he _________ a few weeks' rest.
  20. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. Who ________ next to you now?
  21. By the time we . . . . . . . . our preparations for the congress, most of the participants. . . . . . . . at the hall.
  22. Complete the following conversation using the appropriate option: A:What would you like to eat? B: ____________ a sandwich, please. (I/have)
  23. One feels that there . . . . . . . . any noticeable improvement in the human rights problem in Africa until all the African countries . . . . . . . . their economic difficulties.
  24. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. People go to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to stand in silence for a minute to honor the memory of those who ____ in wars.
  25. No zoologist . . . . . . . . able to keep a gorilla under close observation in the dark jungles in which he . . . . . . . ..