C10 Tenses : Exercises and Answer Key

 

🧨🧨 Answer Key:

I. 

1. Present Perfect  
2. Past Indefinite 
3. Future Indefinite 
4. Past Perfect 
5. Future Perfect 
6. Future Perfect 
7. Present Continuous 
8. Present Indefinite 
9. Present Perfect 
10. Past Indefinite 
11. Future Continuous 
12. Present Perfect Continuous 
13. Future Perfect Continuous 
14. Future Indefinite 

2.

1. swims
2. burn
3. comes
4. rises 
5. come 
6. go
7. arrives
8. fall
9. speak 
10. am
11. are
12. do not object
13. does not like 
14. does (the train) leave
15. know

3. 

1. are (you) doing 
2. are going 
3. is coming 
4. are playing 
5. am not taking
6. is ( he) laughing 
7. is writing 
8. are not swimming 
9. are painting
10. is (he) changing
11. is blowing out
12. is shivering 

4.

1. We have known each other for the past ten years.
2. The appointed day has come.
3. Do you know what has happened to his leg?
4. I have finished my work.
5. I have never deceived you.
6. The train has just arrived.
7. I shall go there after he has finished his homework.
8. Why have they gone there?
9. Has she had her meals?
10. I have never seen the Taj.

5. 

1. have been waiting 
2. has been raining 
3. has been knocking 
4. have been living 
5. have been singing 
6. Has (he) not been suffering
7. have been writing 
8. Has (the tap) not been running 
9. have (you) been fighting 
10. has (he) not been coming 

6.

1. turned, moved
2. saw
3. met
4. sang, danced
5. went
6. broke
7. sent
8. knew
9. copied
10. bit
11. flew
12. cried

7.

1. He counted the books.

2. The peon rang the bell.

3. We played cricket. 

5. She read a story. 

6. Neetu drank a glass of milk. 

8. He rode a bicycle. 

9. A thief stole some money. 

10. The policeman held up his hand. 

8. 

1. was speaking 
2. was crawling 
3. were having
4. was singing 
5. was (he) doing
6. was shaking
7. was shaking 
8. were (you) running 
9. were (you) doing 
10. were watching 

9.

1. had (just) finished 
2. had died
3. had left
4. had died
5. had sunk
6. had completed 
7. had (you ) not reached
8. had never expected 
9. Had (they) bought 
10. had told 
11. had been known 
12. had (often ) received 

10.

1. had been waiting 
2. had been living 
3. had been working 
4. had been suffering 
5. had been knitting 
6. had been raining 
7. had been milking 
8. had been teaching 
9. had been looking 
10. had been learning 

11.

1. Malcom will close his eyes.
2. I will go home.
3. The boys will play cricket.
4. She will finish her homework.
5. I shall write a letter.
6. They will paint pictures.
7. We shall lock the door.
8. Madan will listen to the radio.
9. The teacher will teach us a new lesson.
10. Kalpana will dance and sing.
11. Will you go there?
12. Why will you break the windowpane?

12.

1. I shall be boarding a plane.
2. She will be playing on the harmonium.
3. The peon will be drinking the bell.
4. Hari will be buying this watch from this shop.
5. They will be reading newspapers.
6. We shall be playing football.
7. Mamta will be cooking the dinner.
8. She will be singing a beautiful song.
9. The children will be eating a chocolate ice -cream.
10. He will be collecting stamps.

13.

1. It will have been snowing in Shimla since morning.

2. What will you have been writing?

3. We shall have been playing for three hours when you come here.

4. Anand will have been living in Jaipur for ten years.

5. She will have been reading this book for ten days.

6. I shall have been living in Chennai for two months.

7. Will the tap have been running for an hour before you turn it off?

8. The mechanic will have been repairing my car for an hour.

9. He will have been suffering from fever for six days before you get him admitted to the hospital.

10. Sita will have been knitting my sweater for a month before she leaves for Mumbai.

14.

1. She left yesterday.
2. I went to Chennai last week.
3. She has been reading the 'Gitanjali' for the last six days.
4. She had finished her work when I met her.
5. When I have finished my dinner, I shall read a book.
6. The train had left the station before I reached there.
7. I had been living in Chandigarh since 1978.
8. Edison invented the gramophone.
9. She was born in 1990.
10. They have been working hard since last month.

15.

1. comes, came
2. is doing, does
3. Have (you) been working, have been working
4. had spread , arrived
5. has been teaching 
6. had left, decided 
7. wrote
8. am wearing 
9. has (she) given
10. rings

16.

1. As Mohan was running to jump over the ditch, he slipped and twisted his ankle.We had to carry him home. The doctor has just left and said that he will be soon all right.
2. When she reached the station, she learnt  that the train had left ten minutes before. The stationmaster told her that the timetable had been changed the previous week.

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