Tenses
English Grammar
Revision Test Paper
Term 3
Name: ___________________________
Class: _____________ Section: ______________
Q1. Fill in the blanks with the past tense of the verbs in brackets.
1. I ______________________ (see) a butterfly.
2. She ______________________ (sing) a beautiful song.
3. We ______________________ (play) in the park yesterday.
4. The baby ______________________ (cry) loudly.
5. He ______________________ (write) a letter to his friend.
Q2. Match the present tense verbs with their past tense forms.
A B
1. eat a) jumped
2. run b) ate
3. jump c) ran
4. play d) went
5. go e) played
1) _______ 2) _______ 3) _______ 4) _______ 5) _______ 6) _______
Q3. Circle the correct verb form.
1. I (drink/drank) milk in the morning.
2. They (go/went) to the zoo last Sunday.
3. The dog (bark/barked) at the stranger.
4. We (watch/watched) a cartoon on TV.
5. My father (buy/bought) a new car.
Q4. Rewrite the sentences in past tense.
1. I walk to school. __________________________________________________________________
2. She eats an apple. __________________________________________________________________
3. They play football. __________________________________________________________________
4. He reads a book. __________________________________________________________________
5. We dance on the stage. __________________________________________________________________
Q5. Choose the correct past tense form from the box and complete the sentences.
Ran Ate slept wrote saw
1. The cat ______________________ on the sofa.
2. I ______________________ a delicious cake at the party.
3. She ______________________ a letter to her grandmother.
4. We ______________________ a rainbow after the rain.
5. The boy ______________________ fast in the rain.
Q6. Circle the past/present tense and each sentence and mention the tense below
each as well.
1. Max eats his vegetables every day. ____________________________________________
2. The students listened to the lesson. ____________________________________________
3. Dad cleaned the kitchen tonight. ____________________________________________
4. Emily looks happy. ____________________________________________
5. Yesterday, it snowed. ____________________________________________
6. He climbed the stairs last night. ____________________________________________
7. Most children liked the new park. ____________________________________________
8. Mom liked her gift. ____________________________________________
9. The teacher checked the homework. ____________________________________________
10. You are finishing your homework. ____________________________________________
Q7. Change the tense to past tense for each of the words below.
1. Want ______________________
2. Finish ______________________
3. Wash ______________________
4. Smile ______________________
5. Arrive ______________________
6. Cook ______________________
7. Bake ______________________
8. Call ______________________
9. Visit ______________________
10. Hope ______________________
11. Work ______________________
12. Play ______________________
13. Catch ______________________
14. Teach ______________________
15. Pray ______________________
16. Cry ______________________
17. Tell ______________________
18. Ask ______________________
19. Check ______________________
20. Taste ______________________
21. Hear ______________________
22. Begin ______________________
23. Feed ______________________
24. Meet ______________________
25. Swim ______________________
26. Keep ______________________
27. Beg ______________________
28. Eat ______________________
29. Make ______________________
30. Go ______________________
Q5. Change the tense of the following sentences with the help of the word given in
brackets.
1. Last weekend, I ______________________ (go) to the beach with my friends.
2. They ______________________ (do not/see) the new movie last night.
3. While she ______________________ (read) a book, her phone, ______________________ (ring).
4. He ______________________ (already eat/already ate) dinner when I arrived.
5. We ______________________ (play) soccer yesterday afternoon.
Q6. Jumbled words – Circle the correct tense and write the correct spelling.
1) Eat, eated, eaten: ____________________________________________
2) Aet, Ate, aten: ____________________________________________
3) Hop, hopp: ____________________________________________
4) Cought, caught: ____________________________________________
5) Tolld, told: ____________________________________________
