Free Tenses MCQs with Answers

21. Can they go shopping with us ? Sorry, they are busy; I wish they ________ with you now?

• A. Can go
• B. Are going
• C. Could go
• D. Would go

Explanation: After wish, could expresses a present unreal or unavailable possibility: I wish they could go with you now. Would usually refers to willingness or a future result rather than ability.

22. Early in the morning I _______ feed the cows. After I had finished that, I _______ play with the children in the village.

• A. Used, could
• B. Used, would
• C. Could, should
• D. Could, might

Explanation: Used to describes a past habit, while would can describe a repeated past action in the following clause. Thus, the natural sequence is used to feed and would play.

23. If you read the questions carefully you ______ them easily.

• A. Answer
• B. Will answer
• C. Might answer
• D. May answer

Explanation: This is the first conditional pattern: present simple in the if-clause followed by will plus the base verb in the result clause. Therefore, read combines with will answer for the expected prediction.

24. If________the match,I will go to "KPK (Peshawar) to meet the sports board chairperson.

• A. I will win
• B. I win
• C. I wins
• D. I shall win

Explanation: In a first conditional sentence, the if-clause takes the present simple, while the main clause takes will: “If I win, I will go.” “I will win” is not normally used in the if-clause for this meaning.

25. Past Tense of "Find" is________?

• A. Find
• B. Found
• C. Founded
• D. Both B and C

Explanation: “Found” is the past tense and past participle of “find,” as in “She found the book.” “Founded” is the past tense of “found” meaning established, as in “They founded a school.”

26. Look, It _______.

• A. rains
• B. is raining
• C. has been raining
• D. had been raining

Explanation: The expression “Look!” points to an action happening at the moment of speaking, so the present continuous “is raining” is required.

27. I ______ Sidra yesterday.

• A. have seen
• B. saw
• C. had seen
• D. seen

Explanation: “Yesterday” identifies a completed action at a definite time in the past, which takes the simple past “saw.” The present perfect cannot normally be used with a finished past-time expression like “yesterday.”

28. I have already _____ a new manager?

• A. find
• B. finded
• C. founded
• D. found
• E. none

Explanation: The present perfect “have already” takes the past participle, and the past participle of “find” is the irregular form “found,” not “finded” or “founded.”

29. When she was younger, she __________ five kilometers a day.

• A. walked
• B. had walked
• C. has been walking
• D. had been walking

Explanation: The sentence describes a repeated habit in a finished period of the past, so the simple past “walked” is appropriate. The past perfect forms would require another past event for comparison.

30. If I have money, I __________ it tomorrow.

• A. will purchase
• B. would purchase
• C. have purchase
• D. have purchased

Explanation: This is a first conditional: the if-clause uses the present simple, have, and the result clause uses will plus the base verb, will purchase. Would purchase belongs to a hypothetical second conditional.