Practice MCQ Questions and Answer on Tenses
801.
Correct the sentence at the underlined point:
Where have you been born?
- (A) no error
- (B) were you born?
- (C) have you born?
- (D) did you born?
802.
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:He ____ at the blackboard and ______ that the English teacher _______ the word "apple" there.
- (A) was looking/sees/wrote
- (B) looks/sees/had written
- (C) looked/saw/was writing
- (D) is looking/saw/writes
803.
He is the man about whom we . . . . . . . . so much.
- (A) have heard
- (B) heard
- (C) would have heard
- (D) had heard
804.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
The great English scientist Isaac Newton ______ not far from Cambridge.
- (A) born
- (B) has born
- (C) are born
- (D) were born
805.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
It ____Jack's birthday two days ago.
- (A) Was
- (B) Were
- (C) Is
- (D) Are
806.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the past tense of the verb given in the bracket.
He _________ (ashamed) of himself.
- (A) ashamed
- (B) was ashamed
- (C) have ashamed
- (D) had ashamed
807.
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb to complete the following sentence:
One day, after his meal, Gandhiji set out to make a book-shelf. He _______ (work) for seven hours and completed the job.
- (A) works
- (B) worked
- (C) was working
- (D) had been working
808.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
_____you swim when you were five?
- (A) Could
- (B) Can
- (C) Do
- (D) Are
809.
Complete the sentence with the most suitable option:
I wish you ________ here now. I miss you a lot.
- (A) Are
- (B) Were
- (C) Had been
- (D) Will be
810.
The earthworm, which . . . . . . . . neither lungs nor gills, . . . . . . . . through its skin.
- (A) is having/has breath
- (B) has had/is breathing
- (C) was having/breathed
- (D) will have/was breathing