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Sentence Completion (Grammar based)

Description: This test requires students to fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the verb.
Number of Questions: 30
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Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

See that you ______________ for the meeting in time.

  1. will come

  2. come

  3. would come

  4. came


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

He ______________ from London last week.

  1. has returned

  2. have returned

  3. had returned

  4. returned


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

last week denotes past, since this is case of simplle past . Hence, 4 is correct

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

They will come if we ________________ them.

  1. invite

  2. will invite

  3. invited

  4. would invite


Correct Option: A

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

We ______________ them yesterday.

  1. visited

  2. have visited

  3. had visited

  4. was visiting


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

"yesterday" denotes past tense hence correct usage is visited

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

The doctor concluded that the man _____________ killed ten hours ago.

  1. had been

  2. was

  3. has been

  4. is


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Since we are talking about the past , hence when two actions are in past ,the second one takes past perfect.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I ________________ to Tokyo recently.

  1. have been

  2. will go

  3. has been

  4. was


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: have been

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

We ______________ waiting here for two hours.

  1. have been

  2. has been

  3. are

  4. were


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

this is the case of present perfect continous tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

The train ________________ by the time we reach the station.

  1. would leave

  2. will have

  3. left

  4. would


Correct Option: A

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I _______________ waiting for his reply for two weeks now.

  1. have been

  2. has been

  3. had been

  4. was


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the case of present perfect contnous tense. I always take "have"

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I ___________ school last year.

  1. left

  2. had left

  3. leaved

  4. was leaving


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the case of simple past. Hence, 1 is correct.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

She _____________ the railway station before the train came.

  1. had reached

  2. has reached

  3. will reach

  4. can reach


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Since there are two events the first one takes past perfec tense.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Every morning, I ________________ the paper.

  1. will read

  2. am reading

  3. read

  4. was reading


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the cse of simple present tense.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Akbar _________________ the Mughal power paramount in India.

  1. had made

  2. has made

  3. made

  4. would make


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the case of simple past tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

John has _______________ home.

  1. went

  2. go

  3. gone

  4. going


Correct Option: C

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

When I visited him, he _____________ bed-ridden for two months.

  1. was

  2. has been

  3. had been

  4. were


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When there are two events in past , the first one takes past perfect tense.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

There _____________ a famine in Bengal in 1982.

  1. was

  2. has been

  3. were

  4. had been


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Since this is the case of simple past tense .Hence, 1 is correct option.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

His uncle does not _______________ here.

  1. live

  2. lives

  3. living

  4. lived


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is case of simple present tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Peter ______________ two wickets before rain interrupted play.

  1. took

  2. has taken

  3. had taken

  4. had took


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When we talk about two past events simultaneoulsy , the event happend first takes past perfect tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Peter _______________ editing this magazine for twenty five years by next January.

  1. will be

  2. will have been

  3. is

  4. would be


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Since we are talking about future "by next january" hence, we will use future perfect continous tense.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

In my youth I __________________ exercise every day.

  1. had taken

  2. took

  3. was taking

  4. had been taking


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Edison __________________ newspapers before he became a famous inventor.

  1. sold

  2. had sold

  3. was selling

  4. had been selling


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I ________________ him twice before he left for New York.

  1. see

  2. have seen

  3. had seen

  4. seen


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When there are two events occured in past , the event which occured first takes past perfect tense.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Did you _____________ him?

  1. seen

  2. see

  3. saw

  4. were seeing


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Heat ________________ bodies.

  1. expanded

  2. would expand

  3. expands

  4. is expanding


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Case of simple present tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

She ______________ for Delhi this evening.

  1. is leaving

  2. was leaving

  3. have been leaving

  4. had left


Correct Option: A

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

We _____________ living here since 1990.

  1. were

  2. are

  3. have been

  4. had been


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Case of past perfect continous tense

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

We _____________ here for ten years now.

  1. lived

  2. have lived

  3. had lived

  4. were living


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Does she _________________ what she is doing?

  1. knows

  2. know

  3. knew

  4. had known


Correct Option: B

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

I could ____________ her if I wanted to.

  1. have married

  2. marry

  3. married

  4. be marrying


Correct Option: A

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.

Nobody will ever _____________ what happened to her.

  1. know

  2. knew

  3. had known

  4. be knowing


Correct Option: A
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