Perfect Verb Tense Review

Choose all of the sentences that are written correctly.

• When I finish this hike, I will have walked three miles.

• I was upset when I realized that I had miss the bus.

• By the time Joe arrives, the program had ended.

• You have be sitting in that chair for two hours.

• How long did it take you to write the novel?

Read the sentence: "Washington, D.C., ____ the capital of the United States since 1800." Which word best completes the sentence?

• A) is

• B) was

• C) had been

• D) has been

Read the sentence: "I think I had saw that movie before." Which is the correct verb tense for the underlined part of the sentence?

• I saw

• I will have seen

• I have seen

• Leave as is.

Since 1945, the United Nations worked to find peaceful solutions to disagreements between independent countries. Which is the correct verb tense for the underlined part of this sentence?

• A) had worked

• B) had been working

• C) will be working

• D) has been working

Read the sentence: "Have you ever visited Florida before your trip last week?" Which is the correct verb tense for the underlined part of the sentence?

• You ever visited

• Will you ever have visited

• Have you ever been visiting

• Had you ever visited

Read this sentence: "As of tomorrow, Christina will have been running five miles every day for the last year." Which is the correct verb tense for the underlined part of the sentence?

• A) will run

• B) has been running

• C) ran

• D) will have been running

Read the sentence: "Everyone ______ spoken by the time I arrived." Which word correctly completes the blank in the sentence?

• A) has

• B) had

• C) have been

• D) has been

Read the sentence: "Marcia lives here since 2003." Which word best replaces the underlined verb in the sentence to demonstrate the correct use of verb tense?

• live

• lived

• living

• has lived

Read the sentence: "Jane Ann had drew a picture of herself to place in the art fair." Which change should be made to this sentence?

• Change drew to drawn

• Change had to have

• Change place to places

• Change herself to hers

Read the sentence: "The nurse has been working at the hospital for two years before she decided to find a new job." How should the underlined part of the sentence be correctly written?

• had been working

• will have worked

• will be working

• is working