The Continuous Tenses
Choose the right form of the verb:
It ... raining now.
A. is
B. are
C. were not
D. were
E. was
Choose the right form of the verb:
I ... reading when you rang me up.
A. was
B. are
C. were
D. will
E. shall
Choose the right form of the verb:
That man … up and down the street now.
A. is walking
B. walks
C. have been walking
D. has walked
E. has been walking
Choose the right form of the verb:
Stanley … a sandwich in the kitchen now.
A. Is eating
B. Eats
C. Eating
D. Ate
E. Am eating
Choose the right form of the verb:
Mary can’t come to the phone now. She … (do) her homework.
A. is doing
B. am doing
C. Is done
D. Does
E. Doesn’t
Choose the right form of the verb:
I … at the blackboard at the moment.
A. am standing
B. is standing
C. was standing
D. are standing
E. were standing
Choose the right form of the verb:
Look! The house …!
A. is burning
B. are burning
C. were burning
D. have burning
E. has burning
Choose the right form of the verb:
It … at 6 o’clock yesterday.
A. was raining
B. were raining
C. rain
D. has raining
E. had raining
Choose the right form of the verb:
I … down the street when it began to rain.
A. was walking
B. are walking
C. is walking
D. were walking
E. am walking
Choose the right form of the verb:
Henry saw that the child … at that time.
A. was crying
B. cries
C. had cry
D. cried
E. has cried
Choose the right form of the verb:
Listen! Who ( to play) the piano in the next room?
A. is listening
B. to play
C. are playing
D. have played
E. had playing
Choose the right form of the verb:
Who that man ( to be) who ( to stand) in the doorway?
A. is \ is standing
B. were \ standing
C. is \ stood
D. to be \ standing
E. was \ stand
Choose the right form of the verb:
Where …Tom and Nick ( to be ) now? – They… (to have) a smoke in the garden.
A. are \ are having
B. is \ is having
C. was \ had
D. were \ having
E. is \ having
Choose the right form of the verb:
Look! The kitten … with its tail.
A. is playing
B. is played
C. are playing
D. to play
E. was playing
Choose the right form of the verb:
We … to the theatre to-night.
A. are going
B. was going
C. is gone
D. has gone
E. is going
Choose the right form of the verb:
It … when I left the house.
A. was raining
B. were raining
C. have raining
D. is raining
E. is rain
Choose the right form of the verb:
What … he … when you called on him?
A. was doing
B. is doing
C. are doing
D. were doing
E. has doing
Choose the right form of the verb:
He … a letter when I entered the room.
A. was writing
B. is writing
C. are writing
D. wrote
E. were writing
Choose the right form of the verb:
We … the newspaper when you rang me up.
A. were reading
B. was reading
C. is reading
D. has reading
E. have reading
Choose the right form of the verb:
At that time they … the river.
A. were approaching
B. are approaching
C. am approaching
D. is approaching
E. has approaching