Sentence Completion (Tenses)

Practice completing sentences with the correct verb tenses including past, present, future, perfect, and conditional forms.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

We ______ for you as long as you wish.

  1. shall wait
  2. waits
  3. will be waiting
  4. waited
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I will not go out now as it _______ and I have no umbrella.

  1. was raining
  2. were raining
  3. is raining
  4. has been raining
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

He would have helped you, If you ________ him.

  1. meet
  2. had met
  3. have met
  4. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

She ________ the college since June, 1997.

  1. attend
  2. had been attending
  3. has been attended
  4. have been attended
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

He had completed the work before his father _______.

  1. come
  2. had come
  3. have come
  4. came
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I ________ the letter before he arrived.

  1. have written
  2. has written
  3. had written
  4. None of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

If you _______ another music stream, you could _____ better growth.

  1. learned, got
  2. learn, got
  3. learn, get
  4. learnt, will get
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

He spoke as though he _______ very angry.

  1. was
  2. be
  3. is
  4. were
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

The bell ______ just now.

  1. has rung
  2. had rung
  3. is ringing
  4. will ring
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I _______ when you came in.

  1. am sleeping
  2. was sleeping
  3. sleep
  4. will sleeping
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

How much did that dress cost which she _______ to the ball?

  1. wore
  2. wear
  3. wears
  4. None of these
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

He ______ like a brave man when he was attacked.

  1. to fight
  2. fight
  3. fought
  4. is fighting
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

If he is honest, he _______.

  1. will prosper
  2. prosper
  3. prospered
  4. is prospering
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I _______ my dinner last night with him.

  1. have
  2. had
  3. has
  4. was
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

He ________ me that he had never met you.

  1. told
  2. tell
  3. has told
  4. will tell
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

You will succeed, if you ________ hard.

  1. worked
  2. had worked
  3. work
  4. are working
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb.

He saw that the clock _________.

  1. have stopped
  2. had stopped
  3. was stopping
  4. none of these
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

Why do you _________ late every day?

  1. come
  2. came
  3. has come
  4. had come
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I ______ here for the last ten years.

  1. lived
  2. has been living
  3. had been living
  4. was living
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

Please lend me this book when you ________ it.

  1. read
  2. will read
  3. had read
  4. are reading
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

Sunil _______ on me daily when he goes to school.

  1. call
  2. calls
  3. called
  4. None of these
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

Clive ______ the British Empire in India.

  1. found
  2. founded
  3. find
  4. None of these
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb.

He ________ since morning.

  1. had read
  2. has been reading
  3. have been reading
  4. none of these
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.

I ________ him yesterday.

  1. not meet
  2. did not meet
  3. have met
  4. None of these
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks by choosing the right preposition from the given alternatives.

When I first _______ him, he ____ religion.

  1. meet, study
  2. met, was studying
  3. meet, studying
  4. met, study

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