Exercise [Tenses]

Exercise

I. Fill in the blanks with suitable tense forms:

1. He ------- tea every morning. (Drank, will drank, drinks)

2. I ------- shot up everyday at 50' clock (Got, will get, get)

3. The sun ------ in the east. (Rose, rises, will rise)

4. We -------- to Bombay next week. (are going, will go, go)

5. When ------- the college reopen? (did, do, does, will)

6. The boys -------- hockey now. (play, will play, are playing)

7. I ------- to cinema tonight. (go, went, am going, will go)

8. He ------ just -------- out (had gone, will go, has gone)

9. I ------- my finger and it bleeds now (cut, have cut)

10. I -------- him for a long time. (had known, have known)

11. He ------- sleeping for 5 hours (still sleeping). (had been, will, has been)

12. They ------ the bridge for several months. (built, are building, have been building).

13. The steamer ---------- yesterday. (sails, will sail, sailed)

14. I ---------- Hindi is Nagpur. (learn, will learn, learnt)

15. We --------- to the radio all evening. (listen, are listening, have been listening)

16. The light went out while I ---------- (read, will read, was reading)

17. When I saw him, he ------- chess. (play, was playing, will play)

II. Fill in the blanks with suitable tense forms:

1. The West -------- (envy) the spiritual roots of the East and the East -------- (desire) the materialism of the West. We always ---------- (want) to trade places. "If only I ------- (have) experience",-------- (utter) the youth. "If only I --------- (have) your age", -------- (retort) the one with experience. In every person's career, there ------ (be) times when earning -------- (take) precedence over learning, ads and times when learning --------- (take) priority over earning.

2. A conservancy worker at Puzhal ---------  (sort) through garbage for a couple of hours to retrieve an eight sovereign gold chain a woman --------- (put) in the waste bin by mistake. Sanjeev kumar -------- (earn) plaudits from the residents of Kanchi Nagar in Vinayagapuram for taking the trouble to search for the chain and return it to RR. She ------------- (clean) the house ahead of Pongal and -------------- (leave) a lot of garbage. Her aged mother -----------  (put) the box in which the chain was kept with the waste, thinking it was empty.

3. A king had many elephants. But one elephant ----------  (be) very skilful and obedient. In many wars, he was sent to battlefield and he --------- (will) return victorious. He was the most loved elephant by the king. Time went by and the elephant --------- (become) old. The kind did not send him to the battlefield anymore. Once the elephant went to the lake for a drink, his feet got stuck in the mud there. He started to sink into it. He tried a lot but he couldn't come out. There was panic. The king and many people reached there. Many  ------- (try) various efforts to get him out. But there was no way out. In the meantime, an old retired minister suggested to play the battle drums around the lake. As soon as the drums of war started ---------- (ring), there was a change in the behaviour of the troubled elephant and he pulled himself out of the mud on his own. Just the need to --------- (infuse) enthusiasm within it was required for the elephant. There ------ (be) a need for all human beings to self-motivate when there is no enthusiasm or encouragement from outside. Do not let despair dominate.

4. A new tree species --------- (name) after Leonardo Di Caprio as a tribute to the star's anti logging campaigning, London's Royal Botanic Gardens, -------- (announce) on 6.6.2022. The evergreen with large yellowish_green flowers, which ----- (find) in Cameroon's Ebo forest, --------  (be) the first new species to be officially named in 2022 by botanists.

5. Arthritis may not have a permanent cure, but new and advanced treatment methods -------------- (help) to ensure long term pain relief. For patients suffering from severe pain caused by arthritis, robot_assisted knee replacement can offer pain relief with shorter recovery times and long lasting results. The success rate in conventional knee replacement surgery ---------- (be) about 90_95% but with robotic assisted surgeries, the accuracy (be) said to be 100%. The best remedy is not to strain your knees by excessive --------- (stand) or ------------- (walk).

6. The earth ---------- (lose) its forests. Trees ------------  (cover) about 30% of the earth's but they --------- (destroy) at an alarming rate especially in the tropics. Timber harvesting -------  (be) a major reason for the destruction of the forests. Trees -------- (use) for building houses, making furniture and providing pulp for paper products, such as newspapers and magazines. At least 40 hectares of rain forests ------ (fell) every minute, mostly in order to extract the valuable timber.

7. Varanasi, the pre-eminent historic centre in India, --------- (be) a cumulative city. Over many centuries it --------- (accrue) by design, reconfigured by rulers, lost parts to devastating demolitions, been replenished by meaningful additions, and disfigured by insensitive constructions. As Diana Eck perceptively --------- (say) in her hugely popular book on Varanasi, there ------------ (be) "hardly a stone left upon stone".

8. Some insects --------- (be) harmful to human beings. The poison of the black widow spider --------- (cause) unbearable pain. It ------- (stiffen) the muscles of the abdomen and --------- (cause) death to some of the victims. Some kinds of mosquitoes -------- (carry) germs that cause diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sickness. The mosquitoes ---------- (pick up) germs and pass them on to the people they bite. Flies -------- (play) a part in spreading such diseases as cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever. All insects which carry germs and spread diseases  ------------ (live and breed) only in dirty places. So we can prevent such diseases if we keep our houses free of dirt.

9. Alfred Tennyson --------- (be) born on 6.8.1809 in England. He -------(be) one of the well loved Victorian poets even now. He ------- (show) early talent for writing.  At 12, he ---------- (write) a 6,000 lined epic poem. His father ------- (tutor) him in the classical and modern languages. He  ------------- (select) Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth.

10. Don't have fears about life. Don't feel in tough times that life is long. Life …….. (be) lived every twenty four hours. ------- (make) a checklist and include academic, family and social works to be done every day. -------- (execute) them. Be kind and compassionate. Don't do anything for social prestige. It ------ (be) contagious. Reduce your wants so that you gain time.---------- (try) to see smile on the face of the people around you irrespective of others' attitudes.