Test 2. The Sequence of Tenses. Choose the correct answer.

1. I want to know what ….

a. are those boys doing

b. will those boys do

c. were the boys doing

d. those boys are doing

2. Do you know where …?

a. is the hotel

b. can I find the hotel

c. was the hotel

d. the hotel is

3. I wonder when … home.

a. is she coming

b. will she come

c. she is coming

d. can she come

4. Susie said, “I’ll wash the dishes.” What did she say? She said she … the dishes.

a. would wash

b. will wash

c. shall wash

d. could wash

5. “Are you leaving, Sam?”asked Mabel. What did she ask him? She asked him if he...

a. is leaving

b. was leaving

c. leaves

d. would leave

6. “How have you been, Mona?” asked Fred. What did he ask her? He asked how ….

a. she was

b. was she

c. she had been

d. had she been

7. I explained that I … to London.

a. was going up

b. will go up

c. is going up

d. would be going up

8. I don’t know whether any of you … him.

a. have met

b. will be meeting

c. has met

d. has been meeting

9. I didn’t know I … so strong.

a. am

b. was

c. was being

d. were

10. He hurried her away, grumbling to himself that he had known how it ….

a. will be

b. is going to be

c. would be

d. is

11. I thought I knew why they ….

a. had come

b. come

c. have come

d. are coming

12. Barbara said that she … the shopping yet.

a. hadn’t done

b. hasn’t done

c. didn’t do

d. won’t have done

13. Tino told Barbara that he … the dishes.

a. will wash

b. wash

c. would wash

d. will be washing

14. Mr. Brown thought that he … Ann plenty of time to improve her work.

a. had given

b. will have given

c. has given

d. is giving

15. He had warned Ann repeatedly that if she didn’t start doing better she … out of the job.

a. will be

b. was

c. would be

d. had been

16. Mabel told Sam that her sister … the day before. She was going to be in Washington that week.

a. was called

b. was calling

c. had called

d. had been calling

17. She asked Peter if he already … the car.

a. had been buying

b. had bought

c. would buy

d. has bought

18. I went back to the major’s dugout and he said the field kitchen … along and the drivers could come and get their stew.

a. will be

b. is

c. would be

d. was

19. “You have been trifling with me,” he cried. What did he cry? He cried that she … with him.

a. had trifled

b. would be trifling

c. was trifling

d. had been trifling

20. All the next day he sat on the Prince’s shoulder, and told him stories of what he … in strange lands.

a. was seeing

b. has seen

c. had seen

d. had been seeing

21. “We haven’t got a hope of breaking through without a goblin’s help,” Harry said. What did he say? He said that they … a hope of breaking in without a goblin’s help.

a. hadn’t got

b. haven’t got

c. hadn’t had got

d. haven’t had got

22. The Student looked up from the grass, and listened, but he could not understand what the Nightingale … to him, for he only knew the things that are written down in books.

a. said

b. was saying

c. had been saying

d. is saying

23. In the ward at the field hospital they told me a visitor … to see me in the afternoon.

a. was coming

b. will come

c. is coming

d. had been coming

24. I liked him very much and I hoped he … to the Abruzzi by Saturday.

a. will get back

b. would get back

c. is getting back

d. would have got back

25. They asked me if we … war on Turkey.

a. would declare

b. are declaring

c. will declare

d. were declaring

26. That was a very strange night. I do not know what I …, death perhaps and shooting in the dark and running, but nothing happened.

a. have expected

b. had expected

c. expect

d. was expecting

27. I found a man in the station and asked him if he … what hotels were open.

a. knew

b. knows

c. was knowing

d. had known

28. But the children said that they did not know where he lived, and … him before; and the Giant felt very sad.

a. have never seen

b. did never see

c. were never seeing

d. had never seen

29. Mary said she … since she came.

a. has been writing

b. had been writing

c. is writing

d. was writing

30. She exclaimed she had never expected he … such a thing.

a. will do

b. would do

c. would have done

d. is going to do

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