Tenses & Sequence of Tenses
Subject: General English (सामान्य अंग्रेजी)
Present, past, future tenses, time expressions and sequential clause concordance.
Sample Practice Questions
Question 1: Fill in the blank with the appropriate tense form: 'If it rains tomorrow, we ________ the cricket match.'
- will cancel
- would cancel
- would have cancelled
- cancelled
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Explanation: This is a First Conditional sentence (probable condition). Pattern: If + Simple Present (rains), Main Clause takes Simple Future (will + V1): 'we will cancel'.
Question 2: Choose the correct form of the verb to fill in the blank: 'The train ________ before we reached the railway station.'
- had departed
- has departed
- was departing
- departs
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Explanation: When two actions happened in the past, the earlier completed past action takes the Past Perfect Tense (had + V3) and the subsequent action takes Simple Past (V2). Here, the departure happened first: 'The train had departed before we reached...'.
Question 3: Choose the correct verb form: 'Hardly had I stepped out of the house ________ it began to rain heavily.'
- when
- than
- then
- while
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Explanation: The correlative conjunction pairing for 'Hardly had...' and 'Scarcely had...' is always 'when' (whereas 'No sooner had...' is followed by 'than').
Question 4: Identify the sentence having the correct use of tense:
- She has been studying in this college since 2021.
- She is studying in this college since 2021.
- She studied in this college since 2021.
- She was studying in this college since 2021.
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Explanation: Actions that started in the past and continue into the present with a point of time ('since 2021') require the Present Perfect Continuous tense (has/have been + V-ing).
Question 5: Fill in the blank with the appropriate tense: 'By this time next year, she ________ her master's degree.'
- will have completed
- will complete
- is completing
- has completed
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Explanation: 'By + future time reference' (By this time next year) denotes an action that will be finished before a specified point in the future, requiring the Future Perfect tense ('will have completed').