Verb Forms and Tenses

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

It's high time we ______ solving the problem of unemployment.

  1. start
  2. started
  3. have started
  4. are started
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Mr. Mehra ______ in our organization for the past ten years.

  1. worked
  2. had worked
  3. was working
  4. has been working
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The gym instructor said, 'just try ______ it at home.'

  1. to practice
  2. to have practised
  3. practising
  4. and practised
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

It ______ very cold yesterday evening.

  1. had been
  2. has been
  3. was
  4. were
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

No sooner had I ______ the answer than the bell rang.

  1. wrote
  2. was writing
  3. written
  4. been writing
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The higher we go, the cooler it ______.

  1. becomes
  2. is becoming
  3. has become
  4. became
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

If I ______ in your place, I wouldn't have reacted like that.

  1. was
  2. have been
  3. am
  4. were
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

She says, she knows Hindi, but I don't think she ______.

  1. can
  2. knew
  3. does
  4. had known
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The project ought to ______ done long ago.

  1. be
  2. have been
  3. had been
  4. bring
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

He ______ in as the Minister of Finance yesterday.

  1. swore
  2. was swearing
  3. was sworn
  4. had sworn
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The cultural program will be cancelled if the minister ______ late.

  1. will arrive
  2. has arrived
  3. arrives
  4. arrived
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The earth ______ on its axis.

  1. rotates
  2. is rotating
  3. was rotating
  4. has been rotating
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

He spoke as loudly as he ______.

  1. can
  2. could
  3. could have
  4. would
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

I usually ______ lunch at 1 pm everyday.

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

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

If it rains heavily the match _______.

  1. will be cancelled
  2. will cancel
  3. cancels
  4. shall cancel
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

I am sorry but I _______ what you think.

  1. will not care
  2. am not caring
  3. will not be caring
  4. don't care
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

The growing number of tourists ______ the national income of our country.

  1. are increasing
  2. is increasing
  3. have increased
  4. will be increasing
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form to fill in the blank.

'At your age, I ______ the entrance examination in all seriousness' said his father.

  1. wrote
  2. took
  3. appeared
  4. gave
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Last year, we ______ our Annual Day Function very grandly.

  1. celebrated
  2. celebrate
  3. had celebrated
  4. were celebrated
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

I shall be grateful to you if you ______ me as on date.

  1. will appoint
  2. would appoint
  3. appoint
  4. appoints
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Twenty kilometers ______ not a great distance these days.

  1. are
  2. is
  3. have been
  4. were
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Recently, we _______ him for financial aid.

  1. approached
  2. have been approaching
  3. approach
  4. have approached
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

One ______ oneself to the new surroundings.

  1. will adapt
  2. had adapt
  3. adapts
  4. must adapt
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Listen! someone ______ at the door.

  1. was knocking
  2. has knocked
  3. is knocking
  4. knocks
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the appropriate verb form and fill in the blank.

Before I met my counterpart, I ______ a poor opinion of him.

  1. have
  2. had
  3. have had
  4. had had

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