Tenses Exercises for Class 10 With Answers (001)

 Fill up the blanks by using the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.

Question 1.
(a) We …………… (go) to Guwahati by Rajdhani Express last month.
(b) Rajdhani train …………… (be) a fully air-conditioned train.
(c) It …………… (provide) food, cold drinks, water, and the blankets at night.
(d) The journey …………… (be) cool. It imparted solace to the soul and mind.
(e) On the opposite, there …………… (be) a priest.
(f) He …………… (be) in the church of Patna for the past twenty years.
(g) I was informed that he …………… (read) a book.
(h) He did not say when he …………… (come).
(i) I hope that you …………… (pardon) me soon.
(j) He taught me that good deeds …………… (b) never lost.

Answer:
(a) went
(b) is
(c) provides
(d) was
(e) was
(f) has been
(g) had been reading
(h) would come
(i) will pardon
(j) are

Question 2.
(a) Arjun …………… (be) a good friend of Lord Krishna.
(b) He never …………… (want) to fight with his brother Duryodhan.
(c) It was Krishna who …………… (inspire) Arjun by giving him Upadesas of Gita.
(d) Arjun …………… (bow) before his Guru and then he started fighting.
(e) The Mahabharata …………… (write) by Ved Vyasji.
(f) The Mahabharata …………… (be) an epic.

Answer:
(a) was
(b) wanted
(c) inspired
(d) bowed
(e) was written
(f) is

Question 3.
(a) Malaria …………… (be) caused by female Anopheles mosquito.
(b) They …………… (be) also called carriers.
(c) When a Mosquito …………… (bite) a person, the microbes enter into the bloodstream.
(d) We should …………… (keep) the surrounding clean to avoid the breeding of mosquitoes.
(e) Disease-causing microbes …………… (be) called pathogens.
(f) Yeast …………… (be) a friendly microbe.

Answer:
(a) is
(b) are
(c) bites
(d) keep
(e) are
(f) is

Question 4.
Last week I (a) ……………. (visit) the trade fair. It (b) ……………. (inaugurate) by the President of India. I (c) ……………. (accompany) by my friend who (d) ……………. (come) from the U.S.A. last week. He (e) ……………. (live) in the U.S.A. since last five years. He (f) ……………. (do) his M.B.A. from the New York University.

Answer:
(a) visited
(b) was inaugurated
(c) was accompanied
(d) had come
(e) has been living
(f) is doing

Question 5.
Kate Middleton may (a) …………….(be) looked dainty and fairy-like in her wedding gown but (b) ……………. (talk) doing the rounds (c) ……………. (be) that the‘dress bore a striking similarity with Grace Kelly’s wedding outfit. Royal wedding fans couldn’t (d) ……………. (help) noticing that both the brides (e) ……………. (wear) dramatic gowns with similar V-shaped necklines and long white lace sleeves at their respective weddings, (f) ……………. (report) the New York Daily.

Answer:
(a) have
(b) talks
(c) are
(d) help
(e) wore
(f) reports

Question 6.
(a) Mrs Talwar ………………. (live) in a village.
(b) She ………………. (be) three children.
(c) Her hobby………………..(be) singing and praying in solitude.
(d) She ……………………. (love) to look after the poor children.
(e) Her children ………………. (be) abroad.
(f) She ………………. (be) a staunch devotee of Lord Krishna.

Answer:
(a) lives
(b) has
(c) is
(d) loves
(e) are
(f) is

Question 7.
Honey, amla, gums, resins, tubers and tamarind; all these and more (a) ………………. (come) fromforests and (b) ………………. (find) their way into our lives. But the tribals who (c) ………………. (pluck), dig and extract them get a pittance. Now, the government (d) ………………. (decide) to provide a minimum support price (MSP) for some select forest produce on the lines of wheat and paddy. The step could (e) ………………. (help) around 40 million tribal families which still (f) ………………. (depend) part or whole year on income from forests.

Answer:
(a) come
(b) have found
(c) pluck
(d) has decided
(e) help
(f) depend

Question 8.
A new study has (a) ………………. (find) that birds living in cities (b) ………………. (be) larger brains while species with smaller brains (c) ………………. (find) almost exclusively in rural locations. Researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University (d) ………………. (look) at 82 bird species in central. European cities and in the surrounding countryside and (e) ………………. (found) that birds with relatively large brains, such as crows and magpies (f) ………………. (inhabit) urban areas.

Answer:
(a) found
(b) have
(c) are found
(d) have looked
(e) have found
(f) inhabit

Question 9.
When I (a) ………………. (be) sixty years old, I (b )………………. (be) open a club. All the members (c) ……………… (be) a share in it. It (d) ………………. (be) comprise forty members who should be fifty-plus in age. Health centre, swimming pool, and a dancing floor (e) ………………. (be) be the features of that club. Membership fees (f) ………………. (be) 5 lacs.

Answer:
(a) will be
(b) will
(c) will have
(d) will
(e) will
(f) will be

Question 10.
Peddacheppalli (a) ………………. (become) a habitation after Pakistani Kapu brothers who (b) ………………. (come) from Northern India, (c) ………………. (cut) down a forest and (d) ………………. (level) it, and hence the village (e) ………………. (name) Peddacheppalli after the eldest of the brothers. Sage Agastya (f) ………………. (live) here for some time.

Answer:
(a) became
(b) came
(c) cut
(d) levelled
(e) was named
(f) lived

Question 11.
With the onset of Kaliyuga, none (a) ……………… (perform) pooja and the area (b) ……………. (turn) into a forest with wild shrubs and mud hills (c) ………………. (form) on the Shivlingam. When chappals (d) ………………. (get) trees cut down for (e) ………………. (form) a village, a valmeekam (f) ………………. (surface) and local people offered prayers.

Answer:
(a) performed
(b) turned
(c) formed
(d) got
(e) forming
(f) surfaced