Download Grammar Test: 9 Tenses – Class 10 Please write down your name

Grammar Test: 9 Tenses – Class 10
Please write down your name and your answers on your answer
sheet. Read the instructions carefully before you start and only use
the tenses that are mentioned.
May the Force be strong in you during this test!
A. Present Tenses
Put in the correct tense, choose between Present Simple and
Present Continuous (5 points)
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2.
3.
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I ... (to think) he’s away.
You ... (to know) what I ... (to mean).
I ... (to feel) we ... (to make) a mistake.
Why ... (you – to look) at me like that?
We ... (to see) Beau and Theresa on Tuesday.
Let’s go home. It ... (to get) late.
Your sister ... (to look like) you.
I ... (not – to see) what the problem is.
B. Past Tenses
Complete the text with the verbs in the box (there is one verb too
many!) You will need five Past Continuouses and three Past Simples
(8 points)
to ask – to come – to dance – to grin (=grinneken) – to hold –
to not dance – to order (=bestellen) – to play – to throw
On the dance floor half a dozen couples ...(1) themselves around.
Most of them ... (2) cheek to cheek (=wang), if dancing is the word.
The men wore white suits (=witte pakken) and the girls wore bright
eyes, ruby lips, and tennis or golf muscles.
One couple ... (3) cheek to cheek. Mitchell’s mouth was open, he ...
(4), his face was red and shiny, and his eyes had that glazed look
(=glazige blik). Betty ... (5) her head as far as she could get away
from him without breaking her neck. It was very obvious that she
had had about all of Mr Larry Mitchell that she could take.
A Mexican waiter in a short green jacket and white pants with a
green stripe down the side ...(6) up and I ...(7) a double tequilla
and ... (8) if I could have a club sandwich.
C. Future Tenses
Correct the mistakes, or write ‘Correct’, use Future Simple or Going
to structure (9 points)
Examples: I’ll seeing you tomorrow. -> I’ll see you tomorrow
We are having diner together tonight. -> correct
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Tomorrow will be warm and sunny.
I promise I pay you tomorrow.
The Queen arrives in London on Wednesday.
I going to get up early tomorrow.
Look out! You fall!
Who’s cooking this evening?
I think it’s raining this afternoon.
“I’ve lost my keys.” “I find them for you.”
Mary will have a baby, her belly is growing every day.
D. Mixed Tenses, Past and Perfect
Put in the correct form of the verbs, use Present Perfect, Present
Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Simple or Past Continuous
(11 points)
Dear Sarah,
I hope you are OK. I ...(1 to go) for another job interview last week,
but I ... (2 not – to hear) anything yet. The man who interviewed
me said that he ... (3 to receive) 240 applications!
Do you know, I ...(4 to have) nine job interviews since Christmas,
but no luck. It’s really depressing. I ...(5 to try) to get a job ...(6
since/for) nearly a year now without success.
I ...(7 to see) Sally a few weeks ago. She and Simon ...(8 just – to
come back) from a nice holiday in Tenerife. They went to the same
place that they ...(9 to go) to before, and they had a really good
time, except that Simon ...(10 to lose) all his documents in the sea
when they ...(11 to fish) one day, and they had terrible problems
getting home.
Lots of love, Sue
Maximum score: 33 points=10 (22 points=6,0)
Key.Grammar Test: 11 Tenses – Class 10h
A 5 points
1 think
2 know; mean
3 feel; are making
4 are you looking
5 are seeing
6 is getting
7 looks like
8 do not see / don’t see
B 8 points not used: to play
1 were throwing
2 were dancing
3 were / was not dancing
4 was grinning
5 was holding
6 came
7 ordered
8 asked
C 9 points
1 correct
2 I promise I will pay you tomorrow / I promise I’ll pay you
tomorrow
3 correct
4 I am going to get up early / I’m going to get up early
5 You will fall / You’ll fall
6 correct
7 I think it will rain / it is going to rain this afternoon
8 I will find / I’ll find
9 Mary is going to have a baby
D 11 points
1 went
2 haven’t heard
3 had received
4 have had
5 have been trying
6 for
7 saw
8 had just come back
9 had been / had gone
10 lost
11 were fishing