essential english tenses revision quiz

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Essential English Tenses Revision – Quiz
Choose true or false for each of the statements below:

1. Past continuous is used to talk about recent actions in the past.

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2. Future perfect continuous is used to compare two actions in the past.

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3. Future continuous tense uses ing form.

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4. A future perfect action occurs after another future action.

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5. In present perfect continuous we need to use have or has + being.

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6. We use present simple for regular time and future actions.

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7. We need to use past continuous to make 3rd conditional sentences.

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8. A future perfect sentence often includes the words ‘by’ or ‘by the time’.

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9. Past perfect continuous is used to provide background information.

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10. We use past simple when the time is finished.

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11. Present simple is used to make predictions in the future.

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12. Past simple is used to talk about life experience, e.g. ‘Did you ever...?’

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13. A past perfect action takes place before a past simple action.

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14. Present continuous is used for now and future with a time phrase.

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15. I can use future perfect continuous to talk about anniversaries.

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16. Present continuous uses ing form, unless the time is future.

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17. A future perfect continuous sentence needs three auxiliary verbs.

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18. In present perfect we use have or has + been as auxiliary verbs.

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19. We use present simple for actions which are happening at the moment.

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20. We need will + infinitive to make future simple sentences.

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