Tenses Worksheet

Army Public School, Kapurthala
Class-X
Subject-English
Tenses Worksheet
I. Fill up the blanks by using the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
1. She ——————– the railway station before the train came.
a) had reached
b) has reached
c) reached
d) was reached
2. His uncle does not ——————— here.
a) live
b) lives
c) living
d) lived
3. Peter ————————- editing this magazine for twenty five years by next January.
a) will be
b) will have been
c) is
d) would be
4. Peter ——————— two wickets before rain interrupted play.
a) took
b) has taken
c) had taken
d) had took
5. I ———————– him twice before he left for New York.
a) saw
b) have seen
c) had seen
d) seen
6. Edison —————————- newspapers before he became a famous inventor.
a) sold
b) had sold
c) was selling
d) had been selling
7. In my youth I ————————- exercise every day.
a) had taken
b) took
c) was taking
d) had been taking
8. She ——————— for Delhi this evening.
a) is leaving
b) was leaving
c) have been leaving
d) had left
9. Heat ———————- bodies.
a) expanded
b) would expand
c) expands
d) is expanding
10. We ————————— living here since 1990.
a) were
b) are
c) have been
d) had been
11. We ————————- here for ten years now.
a) lived
b) have lived
c) had lived
d) were living
12. Did you ——————- him?
a) seen
b) see
c) saw
d) were seeing
13. Nobody will ever ———————– what happened to her.
a) know
b) knew
c) had known
d) be knowing
14. I could ———————– her if I wanted to.
a) have married
b) marry
c) married
d) be marrying
15. Does she ———————- what she is doing?
a) knows
b) know
c) knew
d) had known
16. When I visited him he ——————— bed-ridden for two months.
a) was
b) has been
c) had been
d) were
17. I ——————– school last year.
a) left
b) had left
c) leaved
d) was leaving
18. There ——————— a famine in Bengal in 1982.
a) was
b) has been
c) were
d) had been
19. Akbar ————————– the Moghul power paramount in India.
a) had made
b) has made
c) made
d) would make
20. John has ———————- home.
a) went
b) go
c) gone
d) going
II. (a) We …………… (go) to Guwahati by Rajdhani Express last month.

(b) Rajdhani train …………… (be) a fully air-conditioned train.
(c) It …………… (provide) food, cold drinks, water, and the blankets at night.
(d) The journey …………… (be) cool. It imparted solace to the soul and mind.
(e) On the opposite, there …………… (be) a priest.
(f) He …………… (be) in the church of Patna for the past twenty years.
(g) I was informed that he …………… (read) a book.
(h) He did not say when he …………… (come).
(i) I hope that you …………… (pardon) me soon.
(j) He taught me that good deeds …………… (b) never lost.
III. (a) Arjun …………… (be) a good friend of Lord Krishna.

(b) He never …………… (want) to fight with his brother Duryodhan.
(c) It was Krishna who …………… (inspire) Arjun by giving him Upadesas of Gita.
(d) Arjun …………… (bow) before his Guru and then he started fighting.
(e) The Mahabharata …………… (write) by Ved Vyasji.
(f) The Mahabharata …………… (be) an epic.
IV. (a) Malaria …………… (be) caused by female Anopheles mosquito.

(b) They …………… (be) also called carriers.
(c) When a Mosquito …………… (bite) a person, the microbes enter into the bloodstream.
(d) We should …………… (keep) the surrounding clean to avoid the breeding of mosquitoes.
(e) Disease-causing microbes …………… (be) called pathogens.
(f) Yeast …………… (be) a friendly microbe.
V. Last week I (a) ……………. (visit) the trade fair. It (b) ……………. (inaugurate) by the President of India.
I (c) ……………. (accompany) by my friend who (d) ……………. (come) from the U.S.A. last week. He (e)
……………. (live) in the U.S.A. since last five years. He (f) ……………. (do) his M.B.A. from the New
York University.
VI. Kate Middleton may (a) …………….(be) looked dainty and fairy-like in her wedding gown but (b)
……………. (talk) doing the rounds (c) ……………. (be) that the dress bore a striking similarity with Grace
Kelly’s wedding outfit. Royal wedding fans couldn’t (d) ……………. (help) noticing that both the brides (e)
……………. (wear) dramatic gowns with similar V-shaped necklines and long white lace sleeves at their
respective weddings, (f) ……………. (report) the New York Daily.
VII. (a) Mrs Talwar ………………. (live) in a village.

(b) She ………………. (be) three children.
(c) Her hobby………………..(be) singing and praying in solitude.
(d) She ……………………. (love) to look after the poor children.
(e) Her children ………………. (be) abroad.
(f) She ………………. (be) a staunch devotee of Lord Krishna.
VIII. Honey, amla, gums, resins, tubers and tamarind; all these and more (a) ………………. (come)
fromforests and (b) ………………. (find) their way into our lives. But the tribals who (c) ……………….
(pluck), dig and extract them get a pittance. Now, the government (d) ………………. (decide) to provide a
minimum support price (MSP) for some select forest produce on the lines of wheat and paddy. The step could
(e) ………………. (help) around 40 million tribal families which still (f) ………………. (depend) part or
whole year on income from forests.
IX. A new study has (a) ………………. (find) that birds living in cities (b) ………………. (be) larger brains
while species with smaller brains (c) ………………. (find) almost exclusively in rural locations. Researchers
at Sweden’s Uppsala University (d) ………………. (look) at 82 bird species in central. European cities and in
the surrounding countryside and (e) ………………. (found) that birds with relatively large brains, such as
crows and magpies (f) ………………. (inhabit) urban areas.
X. When I (a) ………………. (be) sixty years old, I (b)………………. (be) open a club. All the members (c)
……………… (be) a share in it. It (d) ………………. (be) comprise forty members who should be fifty-plus
in age. Health centre, swimming pool, and a dancing floor (e) ………………. (be) be the features of that club.
Membership fees (f) ………………. (be) 5 lacs.
XI. Peddacheppalli (a) ………………. (become) a habitation after Pakistani Kapu brothers who (b)
………………. (come) from Northern India, (c) ………………. (cut) down a forest and (d) ……………….
(level) it, and hence the village (e) ………………. (name) Peddacheppalli after the eldest of the brothers.
Sage Agastya (f) ………………. (live) here for some time.
XII. With the onset of Kaliyuga, none (a) ……………… (perform) pooja and the area (b) ……………. (turn)
into a forest with wild shrubs and mud hills (c) ………………. (form) on the Shivlingam. When chappals (d)
………………. (get) trees cut down for (e) ………………. (form) a village, a valmeekam (f) ……………….
(surface) and local people offered prayers.

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II. (a) We …………… (go) to Guwahati by Rajdhani Express last month.

III. (a) Arjun …………… (be) a good friend of Lord Krishna.

IV. (a) Malaria …………… (be) caused by female Anopheles mosquito.

VII. (a) Mrs Talwar ………………. (live) in a village.

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