PRACTICE WORKSHEET: TENSES - PRESENT TENSE

Practice Worksheet

Task 1: Complete the following table by filling blanks up:

Tense	Sentence
Simple Present Tense	1)     The sun ……………… (shine) brighter than the stars. 2)     The teacher and the housekeeping staff ………………. (take) care of students in school. 3)     Rohit Sen ………….. (to be) a doctor by profession. 4)     Anisha ………….. (to have) a kitten. 5)     The empty bottle …………………. (keep) on the table. 6)     Sheena and Reena ……………….. (to be) best friends.
Present Continuous Tense	1)     I ………………… (go) to Mumbai the next week. 2)     Indian cricket team …………………… (play) in the World Cup 2023. 3)     Snehal and Meena ……………… (prepare) food for the guests. 4)     The house ……………………. (clean) by the housekeeping staff. 5)     A poem and a lesson ……………………… (teach) by our English teacher. 6)     St. Sebastian Church ………………… (conduct) a religious seminar this Sunday.
Present Perfect Tense	1)     A carpenter ……………… (repair) our old sofa this morning. 2)     The announcement of a new scheme ……………… (do) by the Prime Minister of India. 3)     Mrunalini …………….. (deposit) the money in the bank account. 4)     Upon arrival of the guest, special food …………….. (prepare) by mother. 5)     Manish Singhal ………………….. (swim) across the English Channel. 6)     Ravish Kumar …………………….. (report) various incidences with keeping any political bias since many years.
Present Perfect Continuous Tense	1)     The Government ……………….. (make) plans to eradicate poverty since many years. 2)     Scientists ……………………… (study) about the genetic mutation of the Corona virus since 2019. 3)     It is believed that no management of the use of non-degradable plastic ……………………. (create) a lot of environmental hazards. 4)     It has been a month since the results were declared, and the students …………………… (work) hard to prove themselves. 5)     The mobile phone use ………………… (damage) the nervous system). 6)     Amish’s new laptop ………………………. (find) with many issues and malware.

 

Hints:

·        To be forms in Present Tense: am / is / are

·        To have forms in Present Tense: have / has

·        In Simple Present Tense, we always use the basic form of the verb or the verb with ‘s’ or ‘ies’ form.

·        ‘To be’ form of verb and verb with ‘-ing’ form is used in Continuous tense.

·        ‘To have’ form of a verb and past participle of the action verb is used in Perfect Tense. 

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