Tests and Quizzes

This section contains exercises and tests prepared to check your knowledge of the verb tenses. There are two types of excercises — form and use.

Form is usually easier because all you have to know is the general rule of forming tenses (you will sometimes find that all answers are the same!). The other type is use. In such tests your task is to choose between two or more tenses (e.g. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous).

Before you take the quizzes, it is advisable that you practice the following exercise with a partner, one person asking the questions and the other answering the questions.  Every answer in this exercise is answered in a complete sentence using the verb phrase "feed my fish." The exercise is right here: 12 Tenses Review 1

You may also like to see this game: 12 Tenses Review 2 (game)

Good luck!

All tense vs. tense exercises

Mixed Tenses

"Are You an English Tenses Master?" exercise

Mixed Tenses (external)

Irregular Verbs

Past Participle Quiz (External)

Irregular Verbs (1, 2, 3, 4)

Present Simple Exercises

All are listed here

Present Continuous Exercises

All are listed here

Present Perfect Exercises

Present Perfect Simple or Continuous

Present Perfect or Past Simple

Present Perfect 1 (forming; all)

Present Perfect 2 (forming; negative sentences)

Present Perfect 3 (forming; positive sentences)

Present Perfect and Past Simple 1

Present Perfect Exercises

Present Perfect Continuous exercise

Present Perfect Continuous (forming; positive sentences)

Past Perfect

Past Perfect or Past Simple

Past Perfect (forming; positive sentences)

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continous Exercise

Past Perfect Continuous 1 (forming; positive sentences)

Past Perfect Continuous 2 (forming; negative)

Past Simple

Past Simple (forming; all)

Past Simple or Past Continuous

Past Simple (forming; positive sentences)

Future Tenses

Simple Future or Going to Form

Simple Future or Going to for Predictions

Future Continuous Form

Future Perfect or Future Perfect Continuous

Future Simple (forming; positive sentences)

Future Perfect (forming; positive sentences)

Future Continuous (forming; postive sentences)

Past Continuous

When or While Test

Past Continuous (forming positive sentences)

Others

First or Second Conditional exercise

Inversion for emphasis exercise

Lay Lie and Lie