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Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses
This quiz will provide practice in using the correct form of the verb in various tenses.

This activity contains 25 questions.

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Jennifer usually __________ her guitar for an hour every day.   had practiced practices

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Last night, Andre __________ steaks for the whole family.   grilled will have grilled

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Very few of the students __________ the free lecture on library skills tomorrow evening.   will be attending had attended

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Chin __________ over 600 pig figurines so far.   collects had collected

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: By noon yesterday, the ranch hands __________ two hundred yards of new fence.   had constructed will have constructed

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: By this weekend, the cold front __________ through our region.   is passing will have passed

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Did you know that Kevin __________ in ghosts?   believes will believe

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Yesterday, Danielle __________ Brad Pitt walking into a restaurant.   saw has seen

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: When you are finished shopping for shoes, I __________ on the bench outside the store.   wait will be waiting

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Kristie __________ more than eighteen credits toward her business degree.   has already earned will already earn

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Before working for us, Gerald __________ for several years at a bank.   will have worked had worked

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: By the time we get back from our road trip, we __________ over 3000 miles.   will have traveled had traveled

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: It looks as if Delbert __________ some help with that unicycle.   has need needs

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: I have never __________ a horse before.   ridden rode

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: The office __________ early today.   will be closing will closed

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Clair __________ nearly $700.00 so far selling lemonade and cookies on the sidewalk.   earning has earned

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: You __________ that Elizabeth was allergic to pepper.   could not have known could not known

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: In December, Janice and Tom __________ married for twenty years.   will have been have been

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Ty __________ a weekly column for a computer magazine.   writes write

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: For years, Elwin __________ that unicorns really existed.   believed believes

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: __________ the computer this afternoon?   Will you be needing Will you needing

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Roger __________ baseball cards since he was in the third grade.   has been collecting has collect

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: By the time Ramon realized his mistake, he __________ thirty miles out of his way.   is driving had driven

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: He __________ in a rather bossy way today.   is behaved has behaved

	Choose the verb form that should be inserted into the blank in the following sentence: Until today, Margaret __________ a bald eagle in the wild.   had never seen is never seeing

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