English Tenses Overview
25 Interactive Grammar Exercises
Practice the most important English tenses, including simple, progressive, perfect, future forms, and the causative.
Grammar Explanation
Simple Tenses usually describe routines, facts, repeated actions, or complete events.
Progressive Tenses usually describe actions in progress, temporary situations, or developing situations.
Perfect Tenses connect one time with another time.
Perfect Progressive Tenses emphasize duration over time.
Causative Structures describe situations where another person does something for us.
Example: I have my hair cut every month.
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1. I usually ______ coffee before work. (routine / fact)
a) drink
b) am drinking
[Ich trinke normalerweise vor der Arbeit Kaffee.]
2. She ______ at the moment. (action now)
a) works
b) is working
[Sie arbeitet im Moment.]
3. We ______ to Berlin last year. (finished past event)
a) went
b) have gone
[Wir sind letztes Jahr nach Berlin gefahren.]
4. They ______ dinner when I called. (action in progress in the past)
a) had
b) were having
[Sie aßen gerade zu Abend, als ich anrief.]
5. I ______ this film before. (experience)
a) have seen
b) saw
[Ich habe diesen Film schon einmal gesehen.]
6. She ______ here since 2020. (duration until now)
a) lived
b) has lived
[Sie lebt seit 2020 hier.]
7. We ______ English for two hours. (duration / activity)
a) have been studying
b) study
[Wir lernen seit zwei Stunden Englisch.]
8. By the time I arrived, the meeting ______. (earlier past action)
a) started
b) had started
[Als ich ankam, hatte das Meeting schon begonnen.]
9. I think it ______ tomorrow. (future prediction)
a) will rain
b) rains
[Ich glaube, es wird morgen regnen.]
10. Look at those clouds! It ______. (future with present evidence)
a) will rain
b) is going to rain
[Schau dir diese Wolken an! Es wird gleich regnen.]
11. I ______ my hair cut every six weeks. (causative)
a) have
b) cut
[Ich lasse mir alle sechs Wochen die Haare schneiden.]
12. He ______ his car repaired yesterday. (past causative)
a) repaired
b) had
[Er ließ gestern sein Auto reparieren.]
13. The train ______ at 8:30 every morning. (schedule)
a) leaves
b) is leaving
[Der Zug fährt jeden Morgen um 8:30 Uhr ab.]
14. This week, I ______ from home. (temporary situation)
a) work
b) am working
[Diese Woche arbeite ich von zu Hause.]
15. She ______ already finished the report. (completed result)
a) has
b) is
[Sie hat den Bericht bereits fertiggestellt.]
16. When I was young, I ______ football every weekend. (past habit)
a) have played
b) played
[Als ich jung war, spielte ich jedes Wochenende Fußball.]
17. At 9 o’clock tonight, we ______ dinner. (future action in progress)
a) will be having
b) will have
[Heute Abend um 9 Uhr werden wir gerade zu Abend essen.]
18. By next Friday, I ______ the project. (future completed action)
a) will finish
b) will have finished
[Bis nächsten Freitag werde ich das Projekt abgeschlossen haben.]
19. He ______ for the company for ten years by July. (future duration)
a) will have been working
b) will work
[Im Juli wird er seit zehn Jahren für das Unternehmen arbeiten.]
20. I ______ to call you when the phone rang. (interrupted past action)
a) tried
b) was trying
[Ich versuchte gerade, dich anzurufen, als das Telefon klingelte.]
21. She ______ never been to London. (life experience)
a) has
b) did
[Sie war noch nie in London.]
22. They ______ the office before the manager arrived. (earlier past action)
a) left
b) had left
[Sie hatten das Büro verlassen, bevor der Manager ankam.]
23. I ______ my website checked next week. (future causative)
a) will have
b) will check
[Ich lasse nächste Woche meine Website überprüfen.]
24. Please be quiet. I ______ to concentrate. (action now)
a) try
b) am trying
[Bitte sei leise. Ich versuche mich zu konzentrieren.]
25. Water ______ at 100 degrees Celsius. (general fact)
a) boils
b) is boiling
[Wasser kocht bei 100 Grad Celsius.]
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