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ENGLISH TEST[TENSE]

Description: English Grammar Tense Test to Know the Knowledge About English Language and Literature for UPSC Civil Services Exams
Number of Questions: 25
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Tags: English Tense Test English Vocabulary Preposition Verbs Tense English Sentence Completion English Language English Literature Civil Services Exams UPSC
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When we reached the railway station, we found that the train left.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. is leaving

  2. has left

  3. had left

  4. were leaving


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 For two events which happened in the past, we use the past perfect tense with the previous event.

At present he read a biography.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the underlined words from the options.

  1. is reading

  2. was reading

  3. had been reading

  4. had read


Correct Option: A

Have you see my bag?

  1. saw

  2. seen

  3. is seeing

  4. had seen


Correct Option: B

Before we had gone very far, we found that we lose our way.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. lost

  2. had lost

  3. is losing

  4. will lose


Correct Option: B

If it rains, you get wet.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. will get

  2. am getting

  3. had been getting

  4. had got


Correct Option: A

He wants to go yesterday, but he could not.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. wanted

  2. had wanted

  3. is wanted

  4. was wanted


Correct Option: A

I will be tell a lie if I said that I liked you.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. am telling

  2. would be telling

  3. told

  4. had told


Correct Option: B

This was the opportunity he waited for.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. waits

  2. had been waiting

  3. is waiting

  4. was waited


Correct Option: B

He steal her heart.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. has stolen

  2. stole

  3. had stolen

  4. stealing


Correct Option: B

If I were a lion, I will try to frighten my neighbours.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. would try

  2. had tried

  3. was trying

  4. am trying


Correct Option: A

I expect he will go to Kuwait as soon as he get a visa.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. got

  2. gets

  3. will get

  4. had got


Correct Option: B

Would you mind lend fifty rupees?

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. is lending

  2. was lending

  3. lending

  4. have lent


Correct Option: C

If he works hard he pass the examination.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. will pass

  2. was passed

  3. had passed

  4. passed


Correct Option: A

When we went to see them last night they play cards.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. are playing

  2. were playing

  3. have played

  4. played


Correct Option: B

Mr.James retire last May.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. retired

  2. is retired

  3. was retired

  4. has retired


Correct Option: A

I first go to Ooty in summer.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. goes

  2. went

  3. had gone

  4. had been going


Correct Option: B

By the time the doctor arrived, the patient died.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. had died

  2. has died

  3. will die

  4. would die


Correct Option: A

I asked my father whether he permit me to go to Bangalore.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. would permit

  2. permitted

  3. was permitted

  4. had permitted


Correct Option: A

A small girl step forward with a garland in her hand.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. is stepping

  2. stepped

  3. had stepped

  4. would step


Correct Option: B

She take a fancy to the boy.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. taking

  2. has taken

  3. had been taking

  4. took


Correct Option: B

She was award the first prize.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. awarded

  2. awarding

  3. being awarded

  4. been awarded


Correct Option: A

He will certainly be hang.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. be hanged

  2. is hanged

  3. have hanged

  4. have been hanged


Correct Option: A

Dhoni was choose man of the match.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. chose

  2. chosen

  3. choosing

  4. been chose


Correct Option: B

I write a poem yesterday.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. wrote

  2. has written

  3. have written

  4. have been writing


Correct Option: A

She know to me.

Choose the correct form of the verb for the italiced words

  1. is known

  2. knew

  3. is knowing

  4. has known


Correct Option: A
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