Tense 1

What were you doing when the power went out?

• I have completed my homework.

• I will complete my homework.

• I had completed my homework.

• I was completing my homework.

• I will have completed my homework.

He found the door of his house open, although he _____ it before.

• be locked

• had locked

• had been locked

• had been locking

• had to lock

Hadi looks very tired; he ____ for hours now.

• drove

• had driven

• was driving

• had been driving

• has been driving

I hope that by the time my father retires, I ____ a job.

• get

• am getting

• have got

• got

• will have got

"I have written three letter," means ____.

• she is still writing now

• she is not writing anymore

• she has not finished writing yet

• she hopes to finish this morning

• she has to write now

Which sentence correctly uses the past continuous tense?

• She went to the store when I called her.

• She had gone to the store when I called her.

• She was going to the store when I called her.

• She goes to the store when I called her.

• She will go to the store when I called her.

For the last five months he _____ of moving out because the area has become highly polluted.

• thinks

• is thinking

• thought

• had thought

• has been thinking

Suryo had already been working in that company for two years when I started working there, means ____.

• Suryo wasn't working in that company anymore

• Suryo would be working for two more years.

• Suryo stopped working in that company

• Suryo worked in that company only for two years.

• Suryo was still working in that company

"Tina had just watered the flowers when Ali came." From this sentence we may conclude that _____

• Ali didn't see Tina watering the flowers

• Ali came at the time Tina was watering the flowers

• Ali was watching Tina watering flowers

• Ali would come when Tina finished watering the flowers

• Ali had come before Tina watered the flowers

Iwan, the national tennis champion, _____ tennis since he was nine.

• played

• has been playing

• plays

• is playing

• had played