Sentence Completion (Tenses)
Practice completing sentences with the correct verb tenses including past, present, future, perfect, and conditional forms.
Questions
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
We ______ for you as long as you wish.
- shall wait
- waits
- will be waiting
- waited
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.
- was raining
- were raining
- is raining
- has been raining
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
He would have helped you, If you ________ him.
- meet
- had met
- have met
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
She ________ the college since June, 1997.
- attend
- had been attending
- has been attended
- have been attended
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
He had completed the work before his father _______.
- come
- had come
- have come
- came
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
I ________ the letter before he arrived.
- have written
- has written
- had written
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
If you _______ another music stream, you could _____ better growth.
- learned, got
- learn, got
- learn, get
- learnt, will get
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
He spoke as though he _______ very angry.
- was
- be
- is
- were
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
The bell ______ just now.
- has rung
- had rung
- is ringing
- will ring
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
I _______ when you came in.
- am sleeping
- was sleeping
- sleep
- will sleeping
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?
- wore
- wear
- wears
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
He ______ like a brave man when he was attacked.
- to fight
- fight
- fought
- is fighting
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
If he is honest, he _______.
- will prosper
- prosper
- prospered
- is prospering
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
I _______ my dinner last night with him.
- have
- had
- has
- was
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
He ________ me that he had never met you.
- told
- tell
- has told
- will tell
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
You will succeed, if you ________ hard.
- worked
- had worked
- work
- are working
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb.
He saw that the clock _________.
- have stopped
- had stopped
- was stopping
- none of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
Why do you _________ late every day?
- come
- came
- has come
- had come
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
I ______ here for the last ten years.
- lived
- has been living
- had been living
- was living
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
Please lend me this book when you ________ it.
- read
- will read
- had read
- are reading
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
Sunil _______ on me daily when he goes to school.
- call
- calls
- called
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
Clive ______ the British Empire in India.
- found
- founded
- find
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the verb.
He ________ since morning.
- had read
- has been reading
- have been reading
- none of these
Directions: Fill in the blank by choosing the right form of the given four alternatives.
I ________ him yesterday.
- not meet
- did not meet
- have met
- None of these
Directions: Fill in the blanks by choosing the right preposition from the given alternatives.
When I first _______ him, he ____ religion.
- meet, study
- met, was studying
- meet, studying
- met, study