Perfect Verb Tenses - Wednesday

Read the sentence. 

Tyra ______ in school for twelve years by the time she graduates.

Which word correctly completes the blank in the sentence?

• will of been

• will had been

• will has been

• will have been

In which sentence is a verb used to tell an event that will happen in the future? 

• When the mailman comes through the neighborhood, he greets everyone with a smile. 

• By the time I finish my project, I will have spent 10 hours on it!

• I wanted to earn money to buy a new bicycle, so I worked hard mowing lawns all summer. 

• The cat climbs the same tree every day when I leave for school, and he waits there for me to come home. 

Read the following sentence.

Mr. Muller will bring the granola to Yoga next Friday.

Choose the correct tense of the underlined verb in the sentence.

• Present tense

• Past tense

• Irregular past tense

• Future tense

Read the sentence. 

I think I had saw that movie before. 

Which is the correct verb tense for the underlined part of this sentence?

• I saw

• I will have seen

• I have seen

• Leave as is.

My uncle loved the sound of the end-of-shift whistles. He always said, “After a long business day, it feels good to be off the clock.”

In the second sentence, the phrase off the clock is used to

• heading for home.

• finished working.

• the clock has been turned off. 

• there is no need to worry about time.

Read the sentence.

The sand shimmered on the shore like a sugar on a cookie.

What does the simile above mean?

• The sand was dirty.

• The sand was flat.

• The sand was shiny.

• The sand was sweet.