This grammar exercise tests your ability to use tenses correctly.
1. Look! We ...................... to crash.
We use the present continuous to talk about actions and situations that are going on at the moment of speaking.
2. I wish I .................... a better memory.
After I wish, we use past verbs with a present or future meaning.
3. After he ......................... his homework, he went out to play.
We can use time conjunctions to talk about two actions or events that happen one after the other.
4. I .............................. him for very long when we got married.
We use continuous forms to emphasize the continuation of an action. However, the verb know is not normally used in the continuous form.
5. I .......................... a lot of movies recently.
We use the present perfect continuous to talk about repeated actions and events.
6. I .............................. her for two weeks.
The verb know is not normally used in the continuous form.
7. When I woke up, Mummy .............................. breakfast.
We use the past perfect to suggest that an action had finished before another action commenced.
8. I ............................. in the same job for ten years.
The present perfect and the present perfect continuous tenses are both possible with similar meanings.
9. I told him that I .........................
The past perfect is common after past verbs of saying and thinking.
10. I thought I ........................ the money a week before.
The past perfect is common after past verbs of saying and thinking.
11. I was tired because I ............................... for a long time.
With the time expressions for and since, we use the perfect and perfect continuous tenses.
12. We .......................... by tomorrow afternoon.
Answers
1. Look! We are going to crash.
2. I wish I had a better memory.
3. After he finished / had finished his homework, he went out to play.
4. I had known him for very long when we got married.
5. I have been watching a lot of movies recently.
6. I have only known her for two weeks.
7. When I woke up, Mummy had already prepared breakfast.
8. I have worked / have been working in the same job for ten years.
9. I told him that I had finished.
10. I thought I had sent the money a week before.
11. I was tired because I had been working for a long time.
12. We will have finished by tomorrow afternoon.
