Tenses Quiz

Which tense is used to talk about actions that happened in the past and are finished?

• past continuous tense

• present perfect tense

• past simple tense

• future tense

Which tense is used to talk about actions that were happening in the past at a specific time?

• past simple

• past perfect continuous

• past perfect

• past continuous

Which tense is used to talk about actions that happened before another action in the past?

• past perfect continuous tense

• past perfect tense

• past simple tense

• past continuous tense

Which tense is used to talk about actions that were happening continuously in the past?

• past perfect

• past perfect continuous

• past simple

• past continuous

Fill in the blank: She _______ (study) for three hours yesterday.

• studyed

• studies

• studied

• studying

Fill in the blank: They _______ (play) football when it started raining.

• will play

• are playing

• played

• were playing

Fill in the blank: By the time I arrived, they _______ (already/leave).

• already left

• had left already

• had already left

• left already

Fill in the blank: We _______ (wait) for the bus for an hour before it finally arrived.

• wait

• waited

• waits

• waiting

Rewrite the sentence in past perfect continuous tense: She had been cooking dinner for two hours.

• She had been cooking dinner for two hours.

• She cooked dinner for two hours.

• She was cooking dinner for two hours.

• She has been cooking dinner for two hours.

Rewrite the sentence in simple past tense: They were playing in the park when it started to rain.

• They had played in the park when it started to rain.

• They have played in the park when it started to rain.

• They will play in the park when it started to rain.

• They played in the park when it started to rain.