Tenses Review Exercise

Tenses Review Exercise

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate verb form.

1. We …………………. the railway station before the train came.

a) had reached
b) has reached
c) reached
d) was reached

2. His parents do not ………………………. with him.

a) live
b) lives
c) living
d) lived

3. I ……………………… working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.

a) will be
b) will have been
c) am
d) would be

4. Peter …………………… 87 runs before rain interrupted the match.

a) scored
b) has scored
c) had scored
d) have scored

5. I ………………………  him twice before he left for New York.

a) saw
b) have seen
c) had seen
d) seen

6. When I visited her she …………………… bed-ridden for six months.

a) was
b) has been
c) had been
d) were

7. I ………………………. school last year.

a) left
b) had left
c) leaved
d) was leaving

8. There ……………………… a famine in Bengal in 1982.

a) was
b) has been
c) were
d) had been

9. John has ………………………. home.

a) went

b) go
c) gone
d) going

Answers

1. We had reached the railway station before the train came.

2. His parents do not live with him.

3. I will have been working at this company for 25 years by next Christmas.

4. Peter had scored 87 runs before rain interrupted the match.

5. I had seen him twice before he left for New York.

6. When I visited her she had been bed-ridden for six months.

7. I left school last year.

8. There was a famine in Bengal in 1982.

9. John has gone home.

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