Tenses: Practice Exercises
Q. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb given in the
brackets.
The Ministry of Renewable Energy (MNRE) ……… (A) ……. (ask) all the union
ministries and public sector units to ……… (B) ……. (adopt) solar energy. So far, the
ministry ……… (C) ……. (receive) an encouraging response. India already has a focused solar
mission – Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission – which ……… (D) ……. (launch) in
January, 2010 and ……… (D) ……. (set) an ambitious target.
Answers:
A. has asked
B. adopt
C. has received
D. was launched
E. has set
Q. Complete the sentences with the correct tenses of the verbs
given in brackets.
A. That summer, the river that …………. through the town dried up. (run)
B. When I phone Seema, she …………… round straightaway. (come)
C. Nobody …………… why she married him. (understand)
D. When Arvind was in China, he. ……………………. to Sheila every week. (write)
E. She ………… till evening. (play)
Answers:
A. ran
B. came
C. understood
D. wrote
E. played
Q. Samaria wrote a short story but forgot to edit it. There is an
error in each line. Write the incorrect word/phrase and the
correction.
INCORRECT CORRECT
a) There was living a farmer named Mohan ……….. ……….
b) who is very hardworking and honest. He ……….. ……….
c) has known across the village as a man ……….. ……….
INCORRECT CORRECT
d) of principles and thus loving by all. His ……….. ……….
e) field have always been green and he never ……….. ……….
f) sleeping on an empty stomach ……….. ……….
g) After a drought, all the farmers was leaving, ……….. ……….
h) but Mohan was not ready to left his ……….. ……….
i) fields. The news was reaching the press and ……….. ……….
j) a reporter come to the village to ……….. ……….
k) got his side of the story. ……….. ……….
Answer:
INCORRECT CORRECT
a) was living lived
b) has was
c) has was
d) loving was loved
e) been were
f) sleeping slept
g) was leaving left
h) left leave
i) was reaching reached
j) come came
got get
Q. Complete the following dialogue using correct tenses.
Mother Rahul, where ……… (A) ……. ?
Sohan: I ……… (B) ……. ……… (C) …….
Sohan: Yes, mom, I ……… (D) ……. my homework.
Mother: When will you be back from your friend’s house?
Sohan: ……… (E) ………
Answers:
A. are you going?
B. am going to market to buy a book.
Buy bestselling books online
C. Have you finished your homework?
D. have finished
E. I will be back soon
Q. Fill in the blanks using the correct form of tenses.
Medi Leaks, a website that ……… (A) ……. (allow) stakeholders to register complaints and
put out irregularities in healthcare; ……… (B) ……. (launch) in the capital yesterday. The
website, ……… (C) ……. (inspire) by Wikileaks, ……… (D) ……. (allow) whistle-blowers to
……… (E) ……. (post) information, anonymously. This ……… (F) ……. (check) by a team of
volunteers before ……… (G) ……. (share) on the portal. However, concerns are already
……… (H) ……. (raise) about how it ……… (I) ……. (address) the issue of medical negligence.
Answers:
A. will allow
B. was launched
C. inspired
D. will allow
E. post
F. will be checked
G. being shared
H. being raised
I. would address
Q. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in
each line. Write the missing word along with the word that
comes before and the word that comes after it.
BEFOR MISSIN AFTE
E G R
Experiments at the world’s biggest ………. ……… ……..
a) particle smasher confirmed the existence of two subatomic ………. ……… ……..
particles
b) The discoveries part of the baryon ………. ……… ……..
c) family of particles. Baryons composite particles composed of ………. ……… ……..
three quarks. The
BEFOR MISSIN AFTE
E G R
d) work carried out in 2011 and 2012. A ………. ……… ……..
e) paper reporting the finding have been submitted. ………. ……… ……..
f) The facility going through an upgrade ………. ……… ……..
g) now. A related baryonic particle found by an experiment in ………. ……… ……..
2012
Answer:
BEFORE MISSING AFTER
a) smasher have confirmed
b) discoveries are part
c) Baryons are composite
d) work was carried
e) finding has been
f) facility is going
g) particle was found