Tenses Exercise with Answers

DIRECTION for the questions 1 to 20: Choose the correct verb form from those in brackets:

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He ______ TV most evening. (watches, is watch, is watching)
He _______ out five minutes ago. (has gone, had gone, went)
When he lived in Hyderabad, he _______ to the cinema once a week. (goes, went, was going)
The baby _______ all morning. (cries, has been crying)
I _______ Rahim at the zoo. (saw, have seen, had seen)
I ______ Kumar this week. (haven't seen, did't see, am not seeing)
This paper _____ twice weekly. (is appearing, appearing, appears)
Ashok fell off the ladder when he ________ the roof. (is mending, was mending, mended)
I _________ something burning. (smell, am smelling, have been smelling)
Look, the sun ______ over the hills. (rises, is rise, is rising)
She ______ unconscious since four o'clock. (is, was, has been)

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He used to visit us every week, but he _______ now. (rarely comes, is rarely coming, has rarely come)
I ______ him since we met a year ago. (didn't see, haven't seen, hadn't seen)
We ______ our breakfast half an hour ago. (finished, have finished, had finished)
She jumped off the bus while it _______ . (already started, had already started, would already start)
I ______ for half an hour when it suddenly started to rain. (have walked, have been walking, had been walking)

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Did you think you ______ me somewhere before?. (have seen, had seen, were seeing)
The town _________ its appearance completely since 1980. (is changing, changed, has changed)

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