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