Tenses Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Tenses – Quiz 5
1. The computer _____ slowly since we installed the new operating system.
A) Has been running.
B) Was running.
C) Will run.
D) None of above.
2. The history of the Venetian republic _____ to an end in 1797 when Venice _____ over to Austria by Napoleon.
A) Came / was handed.
B) Was coming / would have been handed.
C) Had come / has been handed.
D) Comes / had been handed.
E) Was questioned.
3. Every night the watchman turns on all the lights and _____ around the building every half an hour.
A) Walked.
B) Is walking.
C) To be walking.
D) Walks.
4. This year the Baldwins _____ skiing in Whistler, British Columbia, over New Year's.
A) Are going.
B) Go.
C) Will have gone.
D) None of above.
5. Look out! The floor is slippery. You _____ down.
A) 're going to fall.
B) Will fall.
C) Will have fallen.
D) 're falling.
6. PRESENT TENSE2. The children (help, helps) water the plants in the garden.
A) Helps.
B) Help.
7. Which verb best fits the sentence? Last night they _____ a job to Sarah.
A) Offered.
B) Offer.
C) Will offer.
D) None of above.
8. Which tense is this?"Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music in his lifetime of only 35 years.".
A) Past Perfect.
B) Past Perfect Continuous.
C) Past Simple.
D) Past Continuous.
9. I will be going to picnic with family. Identify the tense.
A) Future Perfect Tense.
B) Future Perfect Continuous Tense.
C) Future Continuous Tense.
D) Simple Future Tense.
10. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE6. Amisha _____ exited the room.
A) Will have.
B) Shall.
C) Will be.
D) Shall have.
11. Which verb is NOT in the past tense?.
A) He works.
B) He went.
C) He bought.
D) He walked.
12. I have been waiting for you all my life.
A) Pr. Perfect.
B) Pr. Simple.
C) Pr. Perfect Progressive.
D) Pr. Progressive.
13. They _____ on this game.
A) Won't give up.
B) Will gives up.
C) Will not gave up.
D) Won't giving up.
14. What is the tense of the verb?We will dance all night long.
A) Future .
B) Present.
C) Past.
D) None of above.
15. I can't come to the phone because I _____ (eat) dinner.
A) Ate.
B) Eating.
C) Eats.
D) Eat.
16. When I (wake up), I noticed that my brother had gone out.
A) Woke up.
B) Had wake up.
C) Wakes up.
D) None of above.
17. Lucky was reading Tenses.
A) Past Tense.
B) Present Tense.
C) Future Tense.
D) None of above.
18. Complete the following sentence. The babies _____ all the time.
A) Cry.
B) Cries.
19. You _____ standing on your chair now.
A) Were.
B) Was.
C) Is.
D) Are.
20. Seema _____ playing with her sister.FUTURE TENSE.
A) Will be.
B) Shall be.
C) Had.
D) Has.
21. I will have been written articles on different topics before you come.
A) Future continuous.
B) Simple Present.
C) Simple past.
D) Future perfect continuous.
22. Brandon _____ movies.
A) Was watching.
B) Was watch.
C) Were watching.
D) None of above.
23. My friend _____ (not help) me every day.
A) Don't help.
B) Not help.
C) Doesn't help.
D) Didn't helped.
24. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli _____ a map of Mars in 1877, he _____ a large number of straight linear features, which he called "canali", that is, channels.
A) Published / noted.
B) Has published / notes.
C) Publishes / has noted.
D) Had published / was noting.
E) Would have published / had noted.
25. She _____ a book at ten o'clock tomorrow.
A) Was reading.
B) Is reading.
C) Were reading.
D) Will be reading.