Quiz on Perfect Tenses

What is the perfect tense used to describe?

• Future actions

• Ongoing actions

• Habitual actions

• Completed actions

Which of the following is an example of the past perfect tense?

• I am going.

• I will have gone.

• I had gone.

• I have gone.

What auxiliary verb is used to form the perfect tenses?

• To go

• To have

• To do

• To be

Which sentence is in the present perfect tense?

• He had seen.

• He has seen.

• He is seeing.

• He will have seen.

What is the structure of the future perfect tense?

• had + past participle

• will have + past participle

• have + past participle

• has + past participle

Which of the following is an example of the future perfect tense?

• I have gone.

• I am going.

• I had gone.

• I will have gone.

What does the perfect aspect indicate?

• Ongoing actions

• Completed actions

• Future predictions

• Habitual actions

Which of the following is NOT a perfect tense?

• Future perfect

• Simple past

• Present perfect

• Past perfect progressive

Which verb form is used in the present perfect tense?

• Present participle

• Simple form

• Past participle

• Future participle

What is the past perfect tense used for?

• To describe a habitual action

• To emphasize a completed action before another action

• To describe an ongoing action

• To describe an action that will happen