Tenses quiz for class 9 | Multiple choice questions on tenses with answers

I ____ working all afternoon and have just finished the assignment.

Chris ____ to attend the program.

Which tense is used to express an action taking place in the future?

Choose the correct sentence.

My friends and I ____ stuck there.

Neither she nor I ____ at home.

Fill in the blank with the present perfect continuous tense form of the verb given in the bracket. “Adam ____ a health regime every day.” (follow)

By the time she was fifteen, she ____ a beautiful singer.

Identify the tense used in the underlined phrase. “He joined the cooking school late but only in a few months had mastered the recipes.”

Choose the present indefinite tense form of the sentence. “He had been sleeping.”

Fill in the blank with the future perfect continuous tense form of the verb given in the bracket. “We ____ for an hour now.” (Wait)

Fill in the blank with the present perfect tense form of the verb given in the bracket. “James _____ to visit her grandmother.” (Go)

Identify the tense used in the underlined phrase. “He is always found reading the newspaper.”

Identify the tense used in the sentence. “While he was in the military, he still regularly wrote to me.”

Which tense is used to express that an action started in the past and is continuing till now?

“Shyam and his brothers” ____ a famous sweet shop in our neighborhood.

The technique of paraphrasing ____.

Two-thirds of the food supply ____ for the month.

Identify the tense used in the underlined phrase. "The weatherman forecasted that it’s going to rain."

Identify the tense used in the sentence. “Here comes the soon-to-be bride!”

Choose the past perfect continuous tense form of the sentence. “The children played in the park throughout the evening.”

Identify the tense used in the sentence. “Her brother will walk her down the aisle.”

You and I ____ the obligations.

I ____ the medicine as prescribed by the doctor for a week now.

Choose the correct sentence.

Back in my native place, I ____ a smartphone.

The thief and the eye-witness ____.

Each of the four army soldiers ____ for the mission.

Which tense is used to express an action going at some point in the past?

Identify the tense used in the following sentence. “We are going to reach the destination as scheduled.”

Choose the sentence with the future perfect tense.

They ____ into their cars and drove away.

The news ____ not updated timely.

The quality of products ____ over time.

The Chief guest, with his wife, ____.

Sita or her brothers ____ to be blamed.

Neither of the paintings ____ sold.

The wise leader and politician ____ assassinated.

Identify the tense used in the following sentence. “When I reached the bookstore, all the copies had already been sold.”

Which tense is used to show the completion of an action by a certain time in the future?

Which tense is used to show the completion of an action by a certain time in the future?

What do tenses as the form of a verb help to determine?

The Council ____ made its decision.

According to the prevailing rate, two dozen ____ rupees one hundred.

Which tense is used to express general truths and facts?

I ____ this book since morning.

He ____ daily for a year now.

Every boy and girl ____ in the class today.

By the next month, we shall ____ the project.

He ____ in the United States but he still does not have a command over the English language.

Rohan ____ the movie before he read the review.