Daily Olympiad: English - Tenses [20260514]

Challenge yourself with today's CBSE practice! This test covers 'Tenses' for English (Grade 6). Level: Easy | Duration: 30 mins.

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1. Choose the correct tense for the blank: "She ___ (dance) in the play tonight."

Solution
Correct: B
The simple present tense is used here because the action is general or scheduled to happen in the future.

2. Identify the tense of the sentence: "They had completed the project before the meeting."

Solution
Correct: B
The past perfect tense is used because the action (completing the project) happened before another past action (the meeting).

3. Change the sentence to past tense: "He drives to school every day."

Solution
Correct: B
The past tense of 'drives' is 'drove', indicating an action in the past.

4. Which tense is used in the sentence: "I am reading a book."?

Solution
Correct: A
The present continuous tense is used to describe an action happening at the current moment.

5. What is the future tense of: "She goes to the market."?

Solution
Correct: B
The future tense is formed by adding 'will' before the base verb ('go').

6. Correctly rewrite: "He eat dinner yesterday."

Solution
Correct: A
The past tense of 'eat' is 'ate'. The action occurred in the past, hence past simple is correct.

7. Choose the correct tense: "We ___ (live) here for five years."

Solution
Correct: C
The present perfect tense 'have lived' is used with a time expression ('for five years') to indicate an action starting in the past and continuing now.

8. Identify the tense: "They were playing football when it rained."

Solution
Correct: A
The past continuous ('were playing') describes an ongoing action interrupted by another past action ('it rained').

9. Which sentence is in the future continuous tense?

Solution
Correct: A
The future continuous tense uses 'will be + -ing form' to describe an action happening at a specific future time.

10. Fill in the blank: "She ___ (not/come) to the party tomorrow."

Solution
Correct: C
The future tense is required for an action planned in the future ('tomorrow'), so 'will not come' is correct.

11. What is the correct past participle of the verb 'write'?

Solution
Correct: C
The past participle of 'write' is 'written', used in perfect tenses like 'have written'.

12. Complete the sentence: "By next year, he ___ (finish) his degree."

Solution
Correct: C
The future perfect tense 'will have finished' is used to indicate an action completed before a specific future time ('by next year').

13. Identify the tense: "We have just left the house."

Solution
Correct: A
The present perfect tense 'have left' is used to connect the past action to the present (immediate context).

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