Tenses exercise for class 10 CBSE

Complete the following sentences using the most appropriate form of the verb given in the brackets. Click here for a printer-friendly version of this worksheet.

Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the verb given in brackets.

1. The thief ................ (catch) red-handed.

2. A bomb scare ................ (delay) the flight by almost two hours.

3. The stadium .................... (reverberate) with dance, music and drama as troupes from different parts of the country ................... (present) a panorama of color and costume.

4. I .................. (spend) the whole day yesterday in bed.

5. Students from different parts of the country .................. (participate) in the program.

6. It is true that Jim-Corbett .................. (love) animals but he also ................. (kill) many man-eaters.

7. I .................... (learn) Telugu from a friend who ................... (hail) from Andhra Pradesh.

8. The bridge across the river .................. (build) some two hundred years ago.

9. The wicked people who ................ (smuggle) brown sugar into the town ................. (arrest) yesterday.

10. Last night, the clouds ................. (thunder) in the sky.

Answers

1. Was caught; 2. Delayed; 3. Reverberated, Presented; 4. Spent; 5. Participated; 6. Loved, Killed; 7. Learned, Hails; 8. Was built; 9. Smuggled, Were arrested; 10. Thundered

Exercise 2

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate tense form.

1. Positive hydrogen atoms ............................. negative oxygen atoms. (attract)

2. I ............................ (not enjoy) talking to people who are full of themselves.

3. My sister ............................. French at an international school. (teach)

4. The film ......................... on a sad note. (end)

5. Scandals .............................. (spread) faster than fire.

6. The next term ......................... (begin) on Monday.

7. I will be relieved when I ........................... this project. (finish)

8. He ........................ (know) a lot about human psychology.

9. What book ....................... (you read) ...................... now?

10. He ............................ (make) good progress.

11. We ........................... (not have) meetings on Saturdays.

12. ........................ (you get) up early in the morning?

13. I ............................ (teach) English for 24 years now.

14. I ......................... (read) almost all books by Dostoevsky.

15. She ......................... (win) a scholarship to study at MIT.

16. I .......................... (receive) a good job offer.

17. He usually .......................... home by 8 o'clock. (get)

18. They ............................... married next month. (get)

19. Why ........................ (ice float) on water?

20. She ........................... (not remember) anything.

Answers

1. attract, 2. do not enjoy, 3. teaches, 4. ends, 5. spread, 6. begins, 7. finish, 8. knows, 9. are you reading, 10. is making, 11. do not have, 12. Do you get, 13. have been teaching, 14. have read, 15. has won, 16. have received, 17. gets, 18. are getting, 19. does ice float, 20. does not remember

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Exercise 3

1. Ambitious people ........................... for fame and success. (are yearning / yearn / yearns)

2. The lost man ............................, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. (yelled / have yelled / had yelled)

3. That incident .............................. two years ago. (was happening / happened / had happened)

4. The little girl gave a yell of delight when the dollhouse ................................. (delivered / had delivered / was delivered)

5. Mother always ............................ when I stay out late. (worries / worried / have worried)

6. The old woman ............................. for practicing witchcraft. (hanged / was hanged / was hung)

7. You can succeed if you ........................... it strongly. (will / willed / have willed)

8. I ................................ for an hour when at last the train arrived. (waited / have been waiting / had been waiting)

9. If I were you, I .................................... (will not worry / would not worry / don't worry)

10. She always ............................. the wrong people. (trusts / trust / have trusted)

Answers

1. yearn, 2. yelled, 3. happened, 4. was delivered, 5. worries, 6. was hanged, 7. will, 8. had been waiting, 9. would not worry, 10. trusts

Sections in this article

Tenses
The simple present tense
The present progressive tense
The present perfect tense
The present perfect progressive tense
Present tenses to talk about the future
The simple past tense
The past progressive tense
The past perfect tense
The past perfect progressive tense