Tenses Quiz 20 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Tenses – Quiz 20
1. Select the tense of the sentence:She lives in the Philippines.
A) Simple present.
B) Simple past.
C) Simple future.
D) None of above.
2. Nobody will be coming to your help?.
A) Future continuous .
B) Simple future.
C) Future perfect.
D) None of above.
3. PAST CONTINUES TENSE I _____ [do] homework yesterday.
A) Was doing.
B) Am doing.
C) Is doing.
D) Were doing.
4. V2 (verb's second form) of "Do" _____ .
A) Did.
B) Done.
C) Doing.
D) None of above.
5. What _____ next weekend, Yoshi?.
A) Are you doing.
B) You doing.
C) Do you do.
D) None of above.
6. She has been cooking for a while now. (Identify the tense).
A) Present perfect continuous tense.
B) Present perfect tense.
C) Simple Present tense.
D) None of the above.
7. By 2050 scientists _____ a cure for cancer.
A) Will have founding.
B) Will be found.
C) Will have found.
D) Will be founding.
8. Just a minute! I _____ that word in the dictionary.
A) Am looking.
B) Look.
C) Looks.
D) Looking.
9. 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.
10. Identify the tense of the following sentence. We went to the beach.
A) Past.
B) Present continuous.
C) Future.
D) Present.
11. 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.
12. "The anthropologist has been studying that tribe for the last five years." It means _____ He _____ that tribe.
A) Studied.
B) Had studied.
C) Has finished studying.
D) Is still studying.
13. Everything on the menu _____ delicious.
A) Frets.
B) Is tasting.
14. Select the sentence with future continuous tense:-.
A) I am be staying?.
B) Can I be staying?.
C) Believe me i am staying?.
D) Will I be staying?.
15. 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) Are being held / have not been charged.
B) Were held / are not charged.
C) Will be held / were not being charged.
D) Being held / had not been charged.
E) Have been held / would not be charged.
16. Odd one out.
A) We will play basketball.
B) They will be writing letters to each other.
C) They will be cooking food next week.
D) They will be going home.
17. After Jane ( finish) _____ her homework, she watched TV.
A) Had finished.
B) Finished.
C) Were finished.
D) Was finishing.
18. Complete the sentences using the simple past tense.She _____ yesterday.
A) Comes.
B) Came.
C) Was coming.
D) Coming.
19. It _____ lunch time soon.[simple future].
A) Will be.
B) Would be.
C) Shall be.
D) Should be.
20. In 2016 my dad _____ (sell) his old motorbike.
A) Sold.
B) Solded.
C) Selled.
D) Used to sell.
21. State right or wrong:Sheila didn't come back since yesterday.
A) Wrong.
B) Correct.
22. Which of the following is an example of present perfect tense?.
A) She is working for three different companies.
B) She works for three different companies.
C) She has worked for three different countries.
D) She has been working for three different companies.
23. The patient _____ before the doctor came.
A) Had died.
B) Has die.
C) Have die.
D) None of above.
24. Choose four of the uses of the present continuous tense.
A) Describes an action that is taking place and lasting at the present time.
B) Describe timetables, schedules, programs.
25. The students _____ playing football at 3 PM tomorrow.
A) Playing.
B) Will be playing.
C) Were playing.
D) Are playing.