{"id":1598,"date":"2016-10-07T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:22:57","slug":"identify-the-tense-simple-present-or-simple-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/identify-the-tense-simple-present-or-simple-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify the tense &#8211; simple present or simple past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read the following sentences and state whether they are in the simple present or simple past tense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I had a strange experience yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>2. She looked out of the window.<\/p>\n<p>3. I know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>4. I have my dinner at 8 pm.<\/p>\n<p>5. She always keeps her room neat and clean.<\/p>\n<p>6. My mother sings well.<\/p>\n<p>7. My sister speaks five languages.<\/p>\n<p>8. The boys play cricket every evening.<\/p>\n<p>9. I love strawberry ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>10. The birds drink water from the lake.<\/p>\n<p>11. She put the books on the table.<\/p>\n<p>12. The cat drank all the milk.<\/p>\n<p>13. The teacher praised the boy.<\/p>\n<p>14. I forgot my umbrella at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I <strong>had<\/strong> a strange experience yesterday. (had \u2013 simple past tense)<\/p>\n<p>2. She <strong>looked<\/strong> out of the window. (looked \u2013 simple past tense)<\/p>\n<p>3. I <strong>know<\/strong> the answer. (know \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>4. I <strong>have<\/strong> my dinner at 8 pm. (have \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>5. She always <strong>keeps<\/strong> her room neat and clean. (keeps \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>6. My mother <strong>sings<\/strong> well. (sings \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>7. My sister <strong>speaks<\/strong> five languages. (speaks \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>8. The boys <strong>play<\/strong> cricket every evening. (play \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>9. I <strong>love<\/strong> strawberry ice cream. (love \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>10. The birds <strong>drink<\/strong> water from the lake. (drink \u2013 simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>11. She <strong>put<\/strong> the books on the table. (put \u2013 simple past tense; If the verb was <strong>&#8216;puts&#8217;<\/strong> the sentence would be in the simple present tense)<\/p>\n<p>12. The cat <strong>drank<\/strong> all the milk. (drank \u2013 simple past tense)<\/p>\n<p>13. The teacher <strong>praised<\/strong> the boy. (praised \u2013 simple past tense)<\/p>\n<p>14. I <strong>forgot<\/strong> my umbrella at home. (forgot \u2013 simple past tense)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the following sentences and state whether they are in the simple present or simple past tense. 1. I had a strange experience yesterday. 2. She looked out of the window. 3. I know&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[341],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-3-worksheets-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-class-3-grammar-worksheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}