Mixed Tenses Quiz

Almost everyone _______ for home by the time we arrived.

• A. leave

• B. left

• C. leaves

• D. had left

By the age of 25, he ______ two famous novels.

• A. wrote

• B. writes

• C. has written

• D. had written

While her husband was in the army, Mary ______ to him twice a week.

• A. was reading

• B. wrote

• C. was written

• D. had written

I couldn’t cut the grass because the lawn mower ______ a few days previously.

• A. broke down

• B. has been broken

• C. had broken down

• D. breaks down

I have never played badminton before. This is the first time I _____ to play.

• A. try

• B. tried

• C. have tried

• D. am trying

Since _______, I have heard nothing from him.

• A. he had left

• B. he left

• C. he has left

• D. he was left

By the end of next year, George _______ English for two years.

• A. will have learned

• B. will learn

• C. has learned

• D. would learn

The man got out of the car, ________ round to the back and opened the book.

• A. walking

• B. walked

• C. walks

• D. walk

Henry _______ into the restaurant when the writer was having dinner.

• A. was going

• B. went

• C. has gone

• D. did go

He will take the dog out for a walk as soon as he ______ dinner.

• A. finish

• B. finishes

• C. will finish

• D. finishing