The English Tenses

Mark which of these are real types of tense:

• Continuous

• Simple

• Infinite

• Perfect Continuous

• Perfect

Mark which tense is used in the sentence below:

“They cycle home.”

• Present perfect

• Present simple

Mark which tense is used in the sentence below:

“They have been waiting for you for the last two hours.”

• Past Perfect Continuous

• Present Perfect Continuous

Answer if the statement below is true or false:

“The present perfect tense is used to describe actions which started in the past, and have now completed.”

• False

• True

Answer if the statement below is true or false:

“I have been living here for years.” uses the past perfect continuous tense.

• True

• False

Mark which sentence is an example of the present perfect continuous tense:

• I have learned Spanish this year.

• I’ve been learning Spanish this year.

Mark which tense is used in the sentence below:

“She ate lunch.”

• Past simple

• Past perfect

Answer if the statement below is true or false:

The sentence “She was eating.” is an example of the past continuous tense.

• False

• True

Mark which tense is used in the sentence below:

“I had been living there for four years.”

• Past Perfect

• Present Perfect

• Past Perfect Continuous

Mark which tense is used in the sentence below:

“I had been sitting there for an hour when I heard the noise.”

• Past perfect continuous

• Past perfect