English Grammar - Tenses: 96 MCQs with Answers
English Grammar- Tenses
Tenses are the foundation of English grammar and help express the time of an action or event. Learn all 12 English tenses with their definitions, types, sentence structures, grammar rules, formulas, examples, common mistakes, exercises, and multiple-choice questions (MCQs). This comprehensive guide is ideal for school students and candidates preparing for HTET, CTET, TET, SSC, Banking, UPSC, NDA, CDS, and other competitive examinations.
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0%Q1. Fill in the blank with the correct option : The first two sentences in the passage are in the ……… .
Direction (Q. No. 51 to 60) : Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow — The third great defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man's servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern masters. They must be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink, and oil to wash with, and they must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blow up, and spread ruin and destruction all round them. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machines, and a time may come when they will rule us altogether, just as we rule the animals. And this brings me to the point at which I asked, "What do we do with all the time and energy that the machines have saved for us?" The answer, I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines themselves, and the power which the machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization. But you will remember that we agreed at the beginning that being civilized meant making and liking beautiful things, thinking freely, and living rightly and maintaining justice equally between man and man. Man has a better chance today to do these things than he ever had before; he has more time, more energy, less to fear and less to fight against.
Right Answer: simple present & present perfect
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Q2. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank : He ............ sleep after reading at least 20 pages every night, when he lived in hostel.
Right Answer: would
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Q3. Choose the correct tense form : Look ! Here .......... the director of the drama.
Right Answer: comes
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Q4. Choose the grammatically correct sentence :
Right Answer: John has been living in Egypt since 1942.
Explanation:
The grammatically correct sentence is 'John has been living in Egypt since 1942.' Two rules are involved here. First, 'since' is used with a point of time such as 1942, Monday or morning, while 'for' is used with a period of time such as five years or two hours. Second, an action that began in the past and still continues is expressed by the present perfect continuous tense, formed as has/have been + verb-ing. As 'John' is a singular subject, 'has' is used and not 'have'. Hence option (3) is correct.
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Q5. I ________ to go out, but I had too much work.
Right Answer: had been hoping
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Q6. ________ to the bank manager yet ?
Right Answer: Have you written
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Q8. Identify the sentence written in the present tense.
Right Answer: He is eating lunch now.
Explanation:
'Is eating' is a present continuous form, which falls under the broad present tense category.
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Q9. Choose the sentence in the present tense that expresses a general truth.
Right Answer: The sun rises in the east.
Explanation:
'Rises' in the simple present tense is used to state general truths and facts.
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Q10. Which sentence uses a present tense verb to describe a completed action with present relevance?
Right Answer: She has finished her homework.
Explanation:
'Has finished' is the present perfect tense, showing an action completed with relevance to the present moment.
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