Free Tenses MCQs with Answers

31. I __________ New Zealand next year.

• A. go
• B. will go
• C. am going
• D. am going to

Explanation: Am going to is the future-plan form here, and it produces “I am going to New Zealand next year.” The other options do not correctly supply the required to before the place name.

32. I was watching a TV program, when he __________ in.

• A. walk
• B. walks
• C. walked
• D. was walking

Explanation: Was watching describes an action already in progress, while walked describes the shorter event that occurred during it. This past continuous plus simple past pattern is used for an interrupted past action.

33. I've never __ to England.

• A. Been
• B. Went
• C. Going
• D. Go

Explanation: After have or has, the past participle been is required in the present perfect: I have never been to England. Went is a simple past form and cannot follow have in this construction.

34. Look! The bus ________.

• A. Leaves
• B. Leaving
• C. Does leave
• D. Is leaving

Explanation: “Look!” points to an action happening at the moment of speaking, so the present continuous “is leaving” is needed. “Leaves” usually describes a timetable or habitual action.

35. I didn't ______ TV last night.

• A. Not watched
• B. Watched
• C. Watch
• D. Watching

Explanation: After the past auxiliary “did,” the main verb takes its base form: “did not watch.” “Watched” cannot follow “did” in standard English.

36. Her father _____ yesterday?

• A. dead
• B. died
• C. has died
• D. was died
• E. had died

Explanation: The definite past-time marker yesterday requires the simple past tense, died. Has died is present perfect and cannot normally be used with a finished time such as yesterday.

37. I did not ____ to university yesterday.

• A. went
• B. go
• C. gone
• D. going

Explanation: After the auxiliary did, the main verb must be in its base form: “did not go.” Went and gone cannot follow did, and going would require a different construction.

38. I ______ lie from now on.

• A. don't
• B. didn't
• C. haven't
• D. won't
• E. hadn't

Explanation: Won’t is the contraction of will not and correctly expresses a refusal or decision about future behaviour: “I won’t lie from now on.” Don’t refers to the present, not the stated future period.

39. ____ you call your friend yesterday?

• A. Have
• B. Had
• C. Will
• D. Did
• E. Do

Explanation: Did is the past-tense auxiliary used to form a question about a completed action yesterday: “Did you call?” The main verb remains in its base form after did.

40. If I __________ money, I would purchase it now.

• A. has
• B. have
• C. had
• D. have had

Explanation: This is the second conditional: the unreal or hypothetical condition takes the past form had, followed by would purchase in the result clause. Has and have do not fit this hypothetical pattern.