Exercises on Tenses

 ✒️📚Changing Sentences based on tenses and sentence

Use the given verb in the directed Tense form.

1. All the students of my class..........(go) to see the cricket match played in the field.

(Past Perfect Tense)

 2. Only a few students ............(not learn) their lessons properly.

(Present Perfect Tense) 

3. While taking his morning cup of tea my father...............(read)  the newspaper.

(Present Indefinite Tense)

4. People............ (decorate) their houses during festival season. 

(Past Indefinite Tense)

5. She ............ (sit) next to her friend in the classroom.  (Present  Continuous Tense)

6. The farmer goes to the fields early in the morning and comes back late in the evening. 

(Past Tense)

7. A cool wind blew when I went out for a walk in the morning.

(Present Tense)

8. During my vacation I visited my parents to enquire about their welfare. (Future Indefinite Tense ) 

9. The lady caught sight of a small, round, and attractive thing gleaming on the table lying next to her. (Future Tense)   

10. Children missed their grandparents very much and the very next day they took their way to their house. (Present Tense)

11. She narrated the whole incident to the audience in a soft but confident tone.

(Change into Present Continuous Tense)

12. Why had you not greeted the chief guest by garlanding?

  (Change into Future Indefinite Tense)

13. How long did you live in this house?     

 (Change into Past Perfect Continuous Tense)

14. Both the wife and the husband are not on good terms for some time.

 (Change into Past Perfect Tense)

15. He went for lunch in the afternoon and returned after an hour.  

  ( Present Indefinite Tense)

16. Flowers do not wither when I keep them moist in water.

    (Past Indefinite Tense)

17. Children went to their school but did not attend the class. 

    (Present Indefinite Tense)

18. The leader  insisted on the immediate release of the accused 

    but the authorities did not permit it. (Future Indefinite Tense)

19. Shadows of trees went longer as we returned from fields  in the evening. ( Present Indefinite Tense)

20. Roads are damaged due to heavy rains and these 

    are being repaired. (Past Tense Format)

Use the given verb in the directed Tense form.

Sometime back I .............(go)(Past Indefinite Tense)  to a village to see one of my old friends. I ..............(board) (Past Indefinite Tense)  a bus from bus stand and ...........(start) (Past Indefinite Tense)  for the village. I .............( travel) (Past Indefinite Tense) for about two hours and ..........(reach) (Past Indefinite Tense)  my destination. My friend ...........(wait) (Past Continuous Tense) for me at the bus stand. He......... (take)(Past Indefinite Tense) me to his house in his car. We both.............(study) (Past Perfect Tense) together in the school. I ..........(meet) (Past Indefinite Tense) all the members of his family. They ............(feel) (Past continuous Tense)  very happy to see me with them. I ..........( stay) (Past Indefinite Tense) there for about one week. During this period I once..........(go) (Past Perfect Tense) a little unwell. He ............(take) (Past Indefinite Tense) me to the village dispensary for medicine. A lady doctor ..........(sit)(Past Continuous Tense)  there. A large number of patients ..........(sit) (Past Continuous Tense) in two rows in front of her room. Men and women ........(sit) (Past continuous Tense) in separate rows. I ....(have) (Past Indefinite Tense) an amusing experience there. A young woman with her face veiled ........(sit) (Past Continuous Tense) in front of the doctor. She.......(ask) (Past Indefinite Tense) her name. She replied. Then she ....(ask) (Past Indefinite Tense) her if she was married. She ......(Reply)(Past Indefinite Tense) in affirmative. Then she .....(ask) (Past Indefinite Tense) her the name of her husband. She ......(blush) (Past Indefinite tense) only but ......(not speak) (Past Indefinite Tense). She .......(move) her finger forming a circle in the air. The doctor .........(not make out) anything out of it. A lady sitting behind her......... (tell) (Past Indefinite tense)  the doctor that she..........(say) (Past Continuous Tense)  'moon' and it ...........(mean) (Past Indefinite Tense) that his name was Rakib.

1. How foolish of you to have behaved like this!

2. What a bold fellow you are!

3. How nice to see you here at this time!

4. What a promising child it is!

5. What a foolish question!  

Prepared by Noor E Alam

University of Dhaka