Tense | MCQs

Explanation

"Whom" is used as the object of a verb or preposition.

In the sentence, "You have been talking about whom?" refers to the person being talked about.

آپ کس کے بارے میں بات کر رہے ہیں؟

Explanation

The sentence "I shall be working till late at night" is in the Future Continuous tense.

It describes an action that will be happening at a specific time in the future.

Explanation

The sentence "Life becomes miserable in big cities" expresses a general truth or habitual action.

It is conveyed using the present indefinite (or simple present) tense.

Explanation

The sentence "Ali had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg" is in the past perfect continuous tense.

It showing an action (walking) that was ongoing before another past event (breaking her leg).

Explanation

The sentence "The patient had died before the doctor arrived" uses the past perfect tense.

مریض ڈاکٹر کے آنے سے پہلے ہی دم توڑ چکا تھا۔

It to indicate that one action (the patient dying) happened before another past action (the doctor arriving).

Explanation

The complete sentence would be: "After she had climbed the stairs, her heart almost gave out from exhaustion."

This uses the past perfect tense,

Indicating that the action of climbing the stairs was completed before the subsequent action (her heart almost giving out)

Explanation

The correct verb form is "bought," as the sentence is in the past tense,

indicated by the phrase "last week." "Bought" is the past tense of "buy."

"Buy" is the base form of the verb.

"Buying" is the present participle/gerund form.

"Buys" is the third-person singular present tense form.

Explanation

• The sentence should read: "To his horror, he found that he had slept for nearly 24 hours."
• The use of the past perfect tense (had slept) indicates that the action of sleeping started in the past and continued up to the point in the past when he found out how long he had been asleep.

Explanation

 Future continuous tense: Subject + will be/shall be + first form of a verb + object. 

Explanation

• Shazia had opened the door before we arrived
• شازیہ ہمارے پہنچنے سے پہلے دروازہ کھول چکی تھی۔
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• Arrived is best to keep the meaning of the original sentence.
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• past tense and past participle form is had, so we use the second form of the verb "arrived"
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• he/she/it         arrives
• present participle  arriving
• past tense         arrived
• past participle arrived
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