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Tenses MCQs

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Tenses MCQs

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Choose the correct form of the verb given in the bracket that completes the sentence correctly:We _____ our lunch half an hour ago. (Finish)

  1. A. had finished
  2. B. would have finished
  3. C. finished
  4. D. have finished
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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. They can't help us _____ the house.

  1. A. Move
  2. B. Moving
  3. C. Moved
  4. D. Move to
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Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence. I _________ her a joke but even that didn't make her smile.

  1. A. Said to
  2. B. Told to
  3. C. Tried telling
  4. D. Played
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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. All the business letters _____ yesterday. They ____ to the post office immediately.

  1. A. answered / take
  2. B. were answered / took
  3. C. are answered / were taken
  4. D. answered / took
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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option: The train is never late. It ______ (always/leave) on time.

  1. A. always left
  2. B. always leaves
  3. C. is always leaving
  4. D. has always left
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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. A: Were you singing when I came in? B: Yes, I ________.

  1. A. sang
  2. B. was
  3. C. were
  4. D. did
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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word. Alice _____back from America last month.

  1. A. Come
  2. B. Came
  3. C. Comes
  4. D. Coming
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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.When I was in Sri Lanka, I ___Negombo, Beruwela and Nilaveli.

  1. A. visited
  2. B. was visited
  3. C. have visited
  4. D. none of these
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Choose the correct simple past or past continuous form of the verb from the alternatives given. Every morning Gandhiji ________ for a walk.

  1. A. went
  2. B. is going
  3. C. was going
  4. D. gone
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Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. While he _____ to school his elder brother ___ from the Institute. His brother is a teacher now.

  1. A. had gone / graduated
  2. B. has been gone / will graduate
  3. C. is going / has been graduating
  4. D. went / graduated
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Between 1607 and 1733, Englishmen . . . . . . . . thirteen colonies along the east coast of North America and by 1750, nearly two million men, women and children . . . . . . . . in these colonies.

  1. A. were establishing/will be living
  2. B. have been establishing/lived
  3. C. established/had been living
  4. D. had established/will have lived E. have established/had lived
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More than two hundred people . . . . . . . . the tower when the bomb . . . . . . . . in one of the dustbins.

  1. A. have visited/was exploding
  2. B. were visiting/exploded
  3. C. visited/has exploded
  4. D. are visiting/is exploding E. visit/has exploded
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