Worksheet Solutions: Tenses | English Grammar Class 8 PDF Download

Q.1. Fill in the blanks in the following with the correct form of the verb given in (Present Tense)

(i) I ______ in Model Town. (live)

live 

(ii) The mother ______ food for us. (cook)

cooks 

(iii) She ______ to temple every morning. (go)

goes 

(iv) He ______ on me whenever he wants. call)

call 

(v) I ______ what my sister (eat)

eat, eats 

(vi) My father ______ from his office in the evening. (return)

returns 

(vii) They ______ football every evening. (play)

play 

(viii) I ______ everybody well. (wish)

wish 

(ix) The cat ______ rats. (kill)

kills 

(x) The farmers ______ rain. (need)

need 

Q.2.  Fill in the following blanks with correct tense of the verbs given in brackets:

(i) Look ! the sun ______ (rise)

is rising 

(ii) Why ______ you ______ so fast? (run)

are, running 

(iii) The children ______ in the park. (play)

are playing 

(iv) Mohini ______ a novel now. (read)

is reading 

(v) Water ______ from the running tap. (flow)

is flowing 

(vi) ______ it ______ outside now? (rain)

Is, raining 

(vii) What ______ your sister these days? (do)

is, doing 

(viii) I ______ tonight. (return)

am returning 

(ix) They ______ for Kanpur tomorrow. (leave)

are leaving 

(x) Why ______ you ______ a noise? (make)

are, making 

Q.3. Fill in the following blanks with correct tense (present) of the verbs given in brackets :

(i) Where ______ you ______ your purse? (lose)

have, lost 

(ii) ______ she not yet her work? (finish)

Has, finished 

(iii) How many sums ______ she ______? (solve)

has, solved 

(iv) My sister ______ from Meerut presently. (return)

has returned 

(v) Raju ______ Saroj since 1980. (know)

has known 

(vi) Asha ______ never ______ the Red Fort. (see)

has, seen 

(vii) ______ you not ______ your bath as yet? (take)

Have, taken 

(viii) I ______ not ______ my lesson. (revise)

have, revised 

(ix) We ______ not ______ from Rajni for the last four months. (hear)

have, heard 

(x) She ______ in Delhi for eight years. (live)  

has lived 

Q.4. Fill in the following blanks with correct tense of the verbs given

(i) I ______ your letter this morning. (receive)

received 

(ii) How many deer ______ you ______ in the zoo? (see)

did, see 

(iii) My father ______ a new house last month. ( busy)

bought 

(iv) Prices ______ by forty percent last year. (rise)

rose 

(v) Columbus ______ America. (discover)

discovered 

(vi) Thousands of people ______ their lives in the earthquake. (lose)

lost 

(vii) Gangu ______ ten rupees from me. (borrow)

borrowed 

(viii) When ______ you ______ from Allahabad? (return)

did, return 

(ix) I ______ to her house on foot. (go)

went 

(x) A thief ______ into our garage last night. (break)

broke 

Q.5. Fill in the following blanks with correct tense of the verbs given in brackets.

(i) The picture ______ by the time we reach the hall. (start)

will have started 

(ii) ______ you your studies by 2009? (finish)

Will, have finished 

(iii) The farmers ______ not ______ the harvest before September. (reap)

will, have reaped 

(iv) I ______ exercise before the sun rises. (take)

shall have taken 

(v) He ______ his lesson by next week. 

will have learnt 

Q.6. Rewrite the following sentences changing the Verb into the Future Tense:

(i) I reached the station after the train had left.

I shall reach the station before the train leaves. 

(ii) The log of wood broke and they fell into the ditch.

The log of wood will break and they will fall into the ditch. 

(iii) They bound his hand and foot and held him fast.

They will bind his hand and foot and hold him fast. 

(iv) I broke the lock open and got into the room.

I shall break the lock open and get into the room. 

(v) The gardener was watering the plants.

The gardener will be watering the plants. 

(vi) You have really committed a blunder.

You will have really committed a blunder. 

(vii) He found her weeping bitterly.

He will find her weeping bitterly. 

Q.7. Last night a dozen armed men enter a house. (a) ______
They were arm with sticks. First they (b) ______
attack the owner. When he resisted, he (c) ______
was beat up with the sticks. They (d) ______
loots cash and ornaments. They had (e) ______
lock him in a bathroom. (f) ______

(a) enter — entered
(b) arm — armed
(c) attack — attacked
(d) beat — beaten
(e) loots — looted
(f) lock — locked 

Q.8. The underlined words in the following sentences have been wrongly used. Supply the correct word/ words from the options given below each sentence: 

(i) Ask him what he want,
(a) wants
(b) wanted
(c) has wanted
(d) wanting

Correct Answer is option (a)

(ii)  There came the train.
(a) come
(b) comes
(c) has come
(d) had come

Correct Answer is option (b)

(iii) The guest have just now,
(a) leaves
(b) left
(c) leaving
(d) has left  

Correct Answer is option (d)

(iv) I receive your letter this morning.
(a) received
(b) receives
(c) have received
(d) had received 

Correct Answer is option (a)

(v) A thief break into that house last night.
(a) breaking
(b) broke
(c) broken
(d) has broken 

Correct Answer is option (b)

(vi) The bell go before I reached the school.
(a) went
(b) gone
(c) has gone
(d) had gone 

Correct Answer is option (d)

(vii) If you had run you catch the train.
(a) caught
(b) catching
(c) would have caught
(d) had caught 

Correct Answer is option (c)

(viii) If you help me. I could have passed.
(a) helping
(b) have helped
(c) had helped
(d) helped 

Correct Answer is option (c)

(ix) The train go by the time we reach.
(a) went
(b) will go
(c) will be going
(d) will have gon 

Correct Answer is option (d)

(x) I is ill for a week.
(a) am
(b) was
(c) have been
(d) had been

Correct Answer is option (c)