Verb Tense Quiz

After practice, we eat dinner.

• future perfect

• past perfect

• present simple

I am admiring your artwork.

• present progressive

• future simple

• present perfect

Leslie and Veronica have been filming a documentary about honeybees.

• present perfect

• present perfect progressive

• future simple

The shipment shall be arriving on time.

• past progressive

• future progressive

• future perfect

Oscar had been working on a science project.

• past perfect progressive

• present perfect progressive

• past progressive

Michael, a new soldier, will have earned the sergeant’s respect by the end of boot camp.

• future simple

• future perfect

• past progressive

If a sentence contains an incorrect verb tense shift, explain the incorrect shift, and then revise the sentence to be correct. If the sentence is already correct, write correct. Eddie will be raking the leaves in the front yard while I am sweeping the garage floor.

The nature scouts were asking for donations and had collected $50.

• They were fundraising for a camping trip.

• They were selling cookies.

• They were collecting donations.

• They were participating in a community service.

I have been sleeping while it had rained.

• The sentence is in past perfect continuous tense.

• The sentence is in present perfect continuous tense.

• The sentence is in past continuous tense.

• The sentence is grammatically incorrect.

We will be planning a spaghetti dinner fundraiser, and Natalie’s grandma will be making homemade sauce.

• Natalie's grandma is making the sauce for a spaghetti dinner fundraiser.

• The fundraiser is for a spaghetti dinner without sauce.

• Natalie is planning the fundraiser alone.

• The sauce is not homemade.