Tenses Exercise

Ex.
1: Present Tenses
Choose the most appropriate answer.
1. How often does Peter go to the swimming pool? – He to the swimming pool every
day.
He likes swimming.
a. goes
b. is going
c. has gone
d. has been going
2. When is the best time to call you? – I usually till nine in the evening. Call me around
ten, if you can.
a. work
b. am working
c. have worked
d. have been working
3. Let's ask Anna to make apple pie for dessert. She great apple pies.
a. makes
b. is making
c. has made
d. has been making
4. Please be quiet. My children now.
a. sleeping
b. are sleeping
c. have slept
d. have been sleeping
5. The sun in the east.
a. rises
b. is rising
c. has risen
d. has been rising
6. Listen! Someone the piano. Do you hear it? – Yes.
a.
b.
c.
d.
plays is playing
has played has
been playing
7. What is Linda doing? – She dinner.

a. cooks
b. is cooking
c. has cooked
d. has been cooking
8. She can't go to the movies. She her homework yet.
a. doesn't do
b. isn't doing
c. hasn't done
d. hasn't been doing
9. Tanya France several times.
a. visits
b. is visiting
c. has visited
d. has been visiting
10. We this report for four hours. I'm tired. Let's have a break.
a. write
b. are writing
c. have written
d. have been writing
Ex. 2: Past Tenses

1. He a new car last month, but he doesn't really like it.
a. bought
b. was buying
c. had bought
d. had been buying
2. I burned my finger while I breakfast.
a. was cooking
b. had cooked
c. had been cooking
3. By the time I came back, Mike and Jane , so I couldn't tell them about it.
a. were already leaving

b. had already left
c. had already been leaving
4. He for twenty years when he finally quit smoking.
a. smoked
b. was smoking
c. had been smoking
5. I you yesterday because my telephone was out of order.
a. didn't call
b. hadn't called
c. hadn't been calling
6. He was waiting for his bus at the bus stop when the robbers him.
a. attacked
b. were attacking
c. had attacked
d. had been attacking
7. I wanted to ask my son for help, but I saw that he , and I decided not to wake him up.
a. slept
b. was sleeping
c. had slept
d. had been sleeping
8. Yesterday I went to an interesting museum that I before.
a. didn't visit
b. wasn't visiting
c. hadn't visited
9. By the time we arrived, she for us at the train station for three hours.
a. waited
b. was waiting
a.
b.
c.
d.
c. had been waiting
10. Christopher Columbus America in 1492.
discovered was
discovering had
discovered had been
discovering Ex. 3:
Future Tenses

1. Mary wants to speak with you. – Please tell her that I her as soon as I'm free. a. will
call
b. will have called
c. will have been calling
2. Let's meet at eleven o'clock tomorrow. – Sorry, I at eleven o'clock.
a. will be working
b. will have worked
c. will have been working
3. Say goodbye to Ann now. By the time you return, she for New York.
a. will be leaving
b. will have left
c. will have been leaving
4. By 2020, he as the director of this company for thirty years.
a. will work
b. will be working
c. will have been working
5. Why don't you ask Jim for help? I'm sure that he you.
a. will help
b. will have helped
c. will have been helping
6. Please don't ring the doorbell when you get here. My baby .
a. will be sleeping
b. will have slept
c. will have been sleeping
7. Where are you going to spend your vacation? – I don't know yet. Maybe we to Italy
next summer.
a. will go
b. will have gone
c. will have been going
8. She promised that she him about it.
a. won't tell
b. wouldn't tell
c. won't have told
d. wouldn't have told
9. Oh, you'll recognize him. He a brown leather jacket and a red scarf.
a. will be wearing
b. will have worn
c. will have been wearing
10. She buys too many things. She all her money long before her next pay.
a. will be spending
b. will have spent
c. will have been spending
Ex. 4 : The Passive

1. Green tea in China, India, and other countries.
a. is produced
b. was produced
c. had been produced
d. will be produced
2. The play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
a. is written
b. has been written
c. was written
d. had been written
3. Paper from wood pulp.
a.
b.
c.
d.
a. is made
b. has been made
c. was made
d. had been made
4. Call the ambulance! Three people in a car accident.
are injured are
being injured
have been
injured had been
injured
5. This church in the 15th century.

a. is built
b. has been built
c. was built
d. had been built
6. The compass since the 12th century.
a. is used
b. has been used
c. was used
d. had been used
7. I had to wait in the hotel lobby while my hotel room .
a. has been cleaned
b. was cleaned
c. was being cleaned
d. had been cleaned
8. This problem by our specialists at the moment. We hope to find a solution soon. a. is
discussed
b. is being discussed
c. has been discussed
d. will have been discussed
9. By the time I came back, the work on the report .
a. has been finished
b. had been finished
c. will be finished
10. The other two reports one of these days.
a. are typed
b. have been typed
c. were typed
d. will be typed
Ex. 5: Sequence of Tenses

1. I knew that she Madrid before, so I asked her to recommend a good hotel.
a. has visited
a.
b.
c.
d.
b. has been visiting
c. visited
d. had visited
2. She promised to help me if I the answer myself.
a. haven't found
b. didn't find
c. won't find
d. wouldn't find
3. He said that they each other for many years.
a. know
b. have known
c. knew
d. had known
4. I saw that she to hold back her tears.
a. tries
b. is trying
c. has been trying
d. was trying
5. He knew that she as her eyes were red.
a. is crying
b. has been crying
c. was crying
d. had been crying
6. I asked her whether she there with me, but she said no.
a. goes
b. is going
c. will go
d. would go
7. She said that the robber her when she was opening the door to her apartment.
a. attacked
b. has attacked
c. was attacking
d. had attacked
8. I wanted to see her but I didn't know if she in town.
a. is
b. was
c. were
d. had been
9. He told me that he would visit them when he from Spain.
a. has returned
b. returned
c. will return
d. would return
10. My younger daughter learned in class yesterday that the Earth around the
Sun. a. revolves
b. is revolving
c. revolved
d. was revolving

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7. What is Linda doing? – She dinner.

Ex. 2: Past Tenses

a. were already leaving

Choose the most appropriate answer.

Ex. 4 : The Passive

5. This church in the 15th century.

Ex. 5: Sequence of Tenses

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