English tenses quiz — 20 questions with answers.

Who it's for: Lower secondary English classes, ages 13–15, and adults learning English.

Use them as a grammar starter, a check before a writing task, or practice for students learning English. Every question has one correct answer except question 5, which has two. All twenty fit in one Quizoma quiz.

The 20 tense questions with answers

Correct answers are marked with a tick. The same questions, with the same answers, are in the CSV file, in the same order.

Present tenses

1. Choose the right verb: She ___ to school every day.
   A. goes ✓ · B. gone · C. going · D. go
2. Choose the right verb: Listen! The baby ___.
   A. is crying ✓ · B. cry · C. cries · D. cried
3. Choose the right verb: Water ___ at 100 °C.
   A. boil · B. is boiling · C. boils ✓ · D. boiled
4. Choose the right verb: They ___ football right now.
   A. played · B. are playing ✓ · C. plays · D. play
5. Which sentences are in the present simple? (more than one answer)
   A. He works in a bank. ✓ · B. We went home early. · C. She is reading a book. · D. I eat breakfast at seven. ✓

Past tenses

6. What is the past simple of "write"?
   A. writed · B. written · C. writing · D. wrote ✓
7. Choose the right verb: I ___ TV when the phone rang.
   A. am watching · B. was watching ✓ · C. watched · D. watch
8. Choose the right verb: Yesterday we ___ to the market.
   A. gone · B. go · C. went ✓ · D. goes
9. What is the past simple of "buy"?
   A. brought · B. bought ✓ · C. buyed · D. buys
10. Choose the right verb: Did you ___ the email?
    A. sending · B. send ✓ · C. sends · D. sent

Future forms

11. Choose the best form: Look at those clouds. It ___ rain.
    A. going · B. is going to ✓ · C. will to · D. is
12. Choose the right verb: I think she ___ the exam.
    A. passing · B. pass · C. will pass ✓ · D. passes
13. Choose the best form: The train ___ at 6 pm tomorrow, according to the timetable.
    A. leaves ✓ · B. leaving · C. left · D. has left
14. Choose the best form: This time tomorrow I ___ on a plane.
    A. have sat · B. sat · C. will be sitting ✓ · D. will sit
15. Choose the right verb: I ___ you as soon as I arrive.
    A. called · B. calling · C. will call ✓ · D. call

Perfect tenses

16. Choose the right verb: I ___ my homework already.
    A. finish · B. finishing · C. has finished · D. have finished ✓
17. Choose the right verb: She ___ in Lahore since 2015.
    A. is live · B. has lived ✓ · C. lives · D. lived
18. Choose the right verb: By the time we arrived, the film ___.
    A. starts · B. has started · C. had started ✓ · D. started
19. What is the past participle of "go"?
    A. gone ✓ · B. going · C. went · D. goed
20. Choose the right word: I have lived here ___ ten years.
    A. from · B. for ✓ · C. during · D. since

Some wrong options are the classic errors. brought in question 9 is the past of bring; lived in question 17 ignores that she still lives there; and since in question 20 is used with a starting point, not a length of time. Quizoma's results show the accuracy of every question, so you will see straight away which tense needs another look.

Students can use the same set to revise on their own: import it, switch on Show Score and Retake, and it becomes a practice test they can take until every answer sticks.

How to use this template

1. Download the file: quizoma-template-english-tenses-quiz.csv.
2. Open Quizoma Studio in your browser (or the Android app) and choose Import from file.
3. Pick the .csv. Quizoma shows every question for review before anything is saved, so you can fix a wording, drop a question or add your own.
4. Save, then share the 6-character quiz code or QR with your class. Participants answer at quizoma.com/take in any browser.

Timing and points are set on the quiz when you import, not in the file. If you would rather not import at all, you can type the questions into the online quiz maker directly.

What is in the file

One row per question: the question, then the options, then a final correct column holding the number of the right option. Where more than one option is right, the numbers are joined with a |. The first lines look like this:

question,option1,option2,option3,option4,correct
Choose the right verb: She ___ to school every day.,goes,gone,going,go,1
"What is the past simple of ""write""?",writed,written,writing,wrote,4

Open it in any spreadsheet to edit, and save it as CSV again before importing — an .xlsx file is not read. The same format is described on the templates page.