English grammar for all types of Competitive examinations
TENSES — MCQs for Competitive Examinations
SECTION A: Average Standard
1. She ________ to the market every morning.
- A) go
- B) goes
- C) went
- D) has gone
2. They ________ cricket when it started to rain.
- A) play
- B) plays
- C) were playing
- D) have played
3. I ________ my homework before dinner last night.
- A) finish
- B) finished
- C) will finish
- D) have finished
4. The train ________ by the time we reached the station.
- A) leaves
- B) left
- C) had left
- D) has left
5. He ________ in this company for five years now.
- A) works
- B) worked
- C) has been working
- D) had worked
Answers — Section A
- B) goes — Simple Present for habitual actions.
- C) were playing — Past Continuous for an action in progress when another action interrupted.
- B) finished — Simple Past for a completed action at a specific time in the past.
- C) had left — Past Perfect for an action completed before another past action.
- C) has been working — Present Perfect Continuous for an action that started in the past and continues to the present.
SECTION B: Medium Standard
6. By next month, she ________ this project for exactly one year.
- A) will complete
- B) will have been completing
- C) will have completed
- D) is completing
7. No sooner ________ he entered the hall ________ the lights went off.
- A) had / than
- B) did / then
- C) had / then
- D) did / than
8. Choose the sentence that is grammatically correct:
- A) She is knowing the answer.
- B) She has been knowing the answer since morning.
- C) She knows the answer.
- D) She was knowing the answer yesterday.
9. When I ________ him, he ________ a novel.
- A) saw / was reading
- B) see / reads
- C) had seen / read
- D) saw / has read
10. The patient ________ before the doctor arrived.
- A) dies
- B) died
- C) has died
- D) had died
Answers — Section B
- C) will have completed — Future Perfect for an action that will be completed before a specific future time.
- A) had / than — "No sooner...than" is the correct correlative conjunction pair; Past Perfect follows "no sooner."
- C) She knows the answer. — Stative verbs like "know" are not used in continuous tenses.
- A) saw / was reading — Simple Past for the interrupting action; Past Continuous for the ongoing background action.
- D) had died — Past Perfect because the patient's death occurred before the doctor's arrival.
SECTION C: High Standard
11. Identify the error in the following sentence: "If he would have studied harder, he would have passed the examination."
- A) would have studied
- B) he would have
- C) passed the
- D) the examination
- E) No error
12. The committee ________ its report before the minister ________ office next week.
- A) will submit / leaves
- B) submits / will leave
- C) will have submitted / leaves
- D) submitted / left
13. She told me that she ________ for three hours and still ________ not finished.
- A) had been working / had
- B) was working / has
- C) has been working / did
- D) worked / was
14. Choose the option that best fills the blanks: "By the time the rescue team ________ the village, the flood ________ everything."
- A) reached / destroyed
- B) reaches / will destroy
- C) reached / had destroyed
- D) had reached / destroyed
15. Which of the following sentences uses the Future Perfect Continuous tense correctly?
- A) He will be working on this report tomorrow.
- B) He will have been working on this report for six hours by evening.
- C) He has been working on this report since morning.
- D) He would have been working on this report for six hours.
Answers — Section C
- A) would have studied — In a Type 3 Conditional (unreal past), the "if" clause must use "had studied", not "would have studied." Correct sentence: "If he had studied harder, he would have passed."
- C) will have submitted / leaves — Future Perfect is used for the action completed before a future point; Simple Present is used in time clauses referring to the future.
- A) had been working / had — In reported speech set in the past, Present Perfect Continuous shifts to Past Perfect Continuous; "had not finished" maintains the past perfect sequence.
- C) reached / had destroyed — "Had destroyed" (Past Perfect) correctly shows the flood's destruction was complete before the rescue team's arrival (Simple Past).
- B) He will have been working on this report for six hours by evening. — This is the only sentence showing duration of an action continuing up to a specific future point, which is the defining structure of the Future Perfect Continuous tense.
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