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The sequence of Tenses in English Grammar 

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1. When you ____ I will have completed my task.  

A) awoke up
B) awake up
C) awaken up
D) will awake up

ANSWER= (B) awake 
Explanation: Present Tense with Future Perfect Tense 

2. If you come with me, I ___ you a gift.

A) buys 
B) buying 
C) buy 
D) shall buy 

ANSWER= (D) shall buy
Explanation: Frist Conditional sentence

3. All of the girls ___ their homework by the evening.

A) has not learnt
B) will have not learnt
C) are not learnt
D) is not learnt

ANSWER= (B) will have not learnt
Explanation: Future Perfect Tense indicating 'by' with present tense

4. It ____ raining just when we reached there.

A) had stopped
B) have stopped
C) is stopped
D) is stopped

ANSWER= (A) had stopped
Explanation: Past Perfect with Past Indefinite Tense 

5. I ____ Miss Sara when she was leaving the office. 

A) meeting 
B) met 
C) had met 
D) was meeting 

ANSWER= (B) met 
Explanation: Past Indefinite with Past continuous Tense

6. Did you notice the mark on his arm when you ___ him? .

A) see
B) had seen
C) saw
D) seen    

ANSWER= (C) saw 
Explanation: Simple Past Tense.

7. I ____ Gulliver's Travels by Swift already.

A) has read 
B) have read 
C) is read
D) was read

ANSWER= (B) have read
Explanation: Present Perfect Tense 

8. He ____ first position last year.  

A) getting
B) gets
C) get 
D) got   

ANSWER= (D) got 
Explanation: Simple Past Tense.

9.  The first two chapters ____ difficult when I studied. 

A) is
B) were 
C) be
D) has been 

ANSWER= (B) were 
Explanation:  Simple Past Tense. 

10. The teacher said that smoking ____ injurious to health.  

A) was
B) is
C) has been 
D) had been 

ANSWER= (B)  is
Explanation: Scientific Knowledge with Present Tense 

11. Sir John River was very popular with his colleagues when he ____ there.   

A) serves
B) serving 
C) will serve 
D) served

ANSWER= (D) served
Explanation: Simple Past Tense. 

12. If she sings well, she ____ the concert. 

A) would win 
B) will win
C) wins
D) won

ANSWER= (B) will win 
Explanation: First Conditional sentence. 

13. She loved her more than she ____ her sister.   

A) loved
B) loves
C) would love
D) will love

ANSWER= (B) loves 
Explanation: Present Tense with 'more than'.

14. Shakespeare ___ his readers with puns on his words for all the time. 

A) please
B) pleases
C) pleasing
D) to please

ANSWER= (B) pleases
Explanation: General feature of the writer for all the time. 

15. He had passed the exam before you ____ it. 

A) passing
B) passed
C) pass
D) will pass 

ANSWER= (B) passed
Explanation: Past Perfect with Past Indefinite Tense 

16. People said that cow ____ a useful animal.  

A) were
B) was 
C) is 
D) be

ANSWER= (C) is 
Explanation: General Truth in Present Tense 

17. You wanted to tell me that you ___ there by that time.  

A) am not
B) is not
C) are not 
D) were not 

ANSWER= (D) were not 
Explanation: Simple Past Tense 

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18. My father let me ___ the party tonight last year. 

A) joins
B) join  
C) joining
D) joined

ANSWER= (B) join
Explanation: Causative verb with the base form of the verb.

19. I ____ him ten years ago in London  

A) had met
B) meets
C) met 
D) meet

ANSWER= (C) met 
Explanation: Simple Past Tense 

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20. They _____ married for twenty years. 

A) has been
B) have been
C) are 
D) is 

ANSWER= (B) have been 
Explanation: Present Perfect Tense.

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21. My friend ____ me before I asked him. 

A) has helped
B) had helped
C) will help
D) helps

ANSWER= (B) had helped 
Explanation: Past Perfect Tense with Simple Past 

22. He said that the earth ____ around the Sun.

A) revolves
B) revolved
C) revolving
D) revolve

ANSWER= (A)  revolves
Explanation: Universal Truth.

23. A stitch in time ___ nine.

A) saved
B) save
C) saves
D) saving

ANSWER= (C) saves 
Explanation: Proverbs in Present Tense.

24. Inquiry into the nature of things ___ one to understand the ground realities of life.  

A) lead 
B) leading
C) leads
D) to lead

ANSWER= (C) leads
Explanation: Subject-verb agreement. 'inquiry' is the main subject.

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25. It is love that ____ the adversities into pleasures.

A) changing
B) change
C) changes 
D) to change

ANSWER= (C) changes 
Explanation: General Truth in the present Tense