Wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Present perfect and past perfect

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the structure of the present perfect tense?

a)

Has + Past Participle

b)

Having + Past Participle

c)

Have + Past Participle

d)

Had + Past Participle

2.

What does the perfect aspect of the present perfect and past perfect tenses refer to?

a)

Events that occurred in the present and continue in the future

b)

Events that occurred in the past and present

c)

Events that ocurred in the future

d)

Events that occurred up to a specific time

3.

When do we use the present perfect tense?

a)

To talk about recent or past events that happened at an indefinite time

b)

To refer to something that occurred before something else

c)

To describe ongoing events only

d)

To talk about future plans

4.

Which tense is used to talk about a past action that occurred before another past action?

a)

Present Perfect

b)

Past Perfect

c)

Simple Past

d)

Future Perfect

5.

What adverbs can be used with both the present perfect and past perfect tenses?

a)

Quickly, Slowly, Carefully, Loudly

b)

Yesterday, Tomorrow, Now, Later

c)

Just, Already, Yet, Once

d)

Always, Never, Sometimes, Rarely

6.

How is the past time involved in the present perfect tense?

a)

It refers to future events

b)

It only refers to present events

c)

It is not involved at all

d)

It extends from the past up to the present

7.

Which tense is also known as 'the past in the past'?

a)

Simple Past

b)

Future Perfect

c)

Present Perfect

d)

Past Perfect

8.

What is the main difference between the present perfect and past perfect tenses?

a)

The present perfect tense is used for future actions, while the past perfect tense is used for present actions that happened in the past and will repeat in the present.

b)
The present perfect tense describes actions that happened at an unspecified time before now, while the past perfect tense describes actions completed before a certain point in the past.
c)

The present perfect tense describes actions that happened after now, and will repeat in the future, while the past perfect tense describes actions completed before now and that never happened in the past.

d)

The past perfect tense describes actions that happened at an unspecified time before now, while the preset perfect tense describes actions completed before a certain point in the past.

9.

Which of the following sentences is using past perfect properly?

a)
She had already eaten dinner when he arrived.
b)
She has already eaten dinner when he arrived.
c)
She had already eating dinner when he arrived.
d)
She already ate dinner when he arrived.
10.

Which of the following sentences is using present perfect properly?

a)
I have finished my homework.
b)

I had finished my homework until tomorrow.

c)

I have finished my homework yesterday.

d)

I had finishing my homework now.

11.

What is the structure of the past perfect tense?

a)

Having + Past Participle

b)

Has + Past Participle

c)

Have + Past Participle

d)

Had + Past Participle

12.

Which of the following sentences could use the adverb yet to complement the present perfect?

a)

I have not yet finish my homework.

b)
I have not finished my homework yet.
c)

I have yet finish my homework.

d)
I have finished my homework yet.
13.

Which of the following sentences could use the adverb already to complement the past perfect?

a)
She had already finished her homework when her friends arrived.
b)
She had finished her homework when her friends already arrived.
c)

She has finished her homework already when her friends arrived.

d)
She already finished her homework when her friends arrived.
14.

Which of the following sentences is using the question form of the present perfect in third person properly?

a)

Had he finished his homework?

b)
Have he finished his homework?
c)
Has he finished his homework?
d)
Has he finish his homework?
15.

Which of the following sentences is using the question form of the past perfect in third person properly?

a)

Has he finished his homework before the teacher arrived?

b)

Has they finished their homework before the teacher arrived?

c)

Had he finish his homework before the teacher arrived?

d)

Had she finished her homework before the teacher arrived?