English Grammar Test Verb Tenses Flashcards
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Which sentence uses the present perfect tense correctly?
Answer: She has finished her homework.
"Has finished" is the present perfect tense, showing a completed action with present relevance.
Choose the correct past perfect sentence.
Answer: By the time she arrived, they had eaten dinner.
"Had eaten" is the past perfect tense, showing an action completed before another past action.
Which sentence correctly uses the present perfect progressive?
Answer: She has been working for three hours.
"Has been working" shows an ongoing action that started in the past and continues to the present.
Identify the error in: "I have seen that movie last week."
Answer: Should be "I saw that movie last week"
"Last week" is a specific past time reference, so simple past "saw" must be used instead of present perfect.
Which sentence uses future perfect tense?
Answer: I will have finished the report by noon.
"Will have finished" is future perfect, expressing an action completed before a specific future time.
Complete the sentence: "She _____ in Paris for ten years before she moved to London."
Answer: had lived
"Had lived" (past perfect) describes an action completed before another past event (moving to London).