Verb Assignment

Instructions: Select the correct verb or verbal phrase for the sentence.

By the time we arrived, the speaker _______________ the lecture.

• had concluded

• concludes

• will conclude

• is concluding

She _______________ studying medicine for six years by next spring.

• will have been

• will be

• has been

• will had been

The committee _______________ every Friday until the proposal is finalized.

• is meeting
• will met

• is meet

• meeting

They _______________ for a breakthrough before the funding expired.

• had been hoping

• have hoped

• was hoping

• hopes

If he _______________ harder, he would pass the exam.

• had studied

• studies

• will study

• is studying

The scientist _______________ her theory clearly during each presentation.

• explains

• explained

• explaining

• explain

We _______________ that film multiple times.

• have seen

• has saw

• seen

• have saw

The professor _______________ an article when the earthquake struck.

• was writing

• writes

• has written

• write

By 2025, they ______________________ the new library wing.

• will have built

• will build

• have built

• will be building

While I ____________ to class, I ran into an old friend.

• was walking
• will walk

• am walks

• walk