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TENSE LEVEL – 1.
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1. (c) Replace ‘will’ with ‘would’.
2. (b) Replace ‘wrote’ with ‘had written’.
3. (a) Use of since/for shows that it is perfect continuous tense; Replace ‘am’
with ‘have been’.
4. (a) Replace ‘read’ with ‘had read’.
5. (b) Replace ‘would have’ with ‘had’.
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6. (b) Replace ‘has’ with ‘had’.
7. (b) Replace’ strike’ with ‘strikes’ for present indefinite tense.
8. (b) Replace ‘immemorial time’ with ‘time immemorial’.
9. (b) Replace ‘has’ with ‘had’ because sentence is in past tense.
10. (c) Replace ‘take’ with ‘have taken’.
11. (c) Replace ‘was’ with ‘had’
12. (a) Replace ‘am’ with ‘had’
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13. (b) Remove ‘has’.
14. (b) For perfect tense – has/have/had + V3. Replace ‘flown’ with ‘flowed’
which is the third form of ‘flow’.
15. (b) Replace ‘rise’ with ‘raise’
16. (c) For indirect speech – ‘Question word + assertive sentence’. Correct –
‘what her name was’.
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17. (c) Remove ‘had’
18. (b) Correct – ‘I were interested’
19. (d) No Error.
20. (a) Replace ‘is’ with ‘was’.
21. (c) Correct – ‘and were looking’
22. (b) Correct – ‘if I were ill’
23. (b) Replace ‘had’ with ‘has’.
24. (c) Correct – ‘has died’
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25. (b) Condition is never in future tense; Remove ‘will’

26. (a) Replace ‘dig’ with ‘was digging’.
27. (c) The sentence should have same tense throughout, Replace ‘played’ with
‘playing’.
28. (c) Sentence tells about the routine action and therefore should be in
present indefinite. Correct – ‘she goes to the office’
29. (c) Correct – ‘did not know anything’
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30. (b) Replace ‘have’ with ‘had’.
31. (d) No error
32. (a) Replace ‘is’ with ‘have been’
33. (d) No error
34. (c) Replace ‘has broken’ with ‘broke’.
35. (b) Replace ‘worked’ with ‘has been working’
36. (b) Replace ‘is’ with ‘has been’.
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37. (a) Replace ‘follow’ with ‘followed’
38. (c) Replace ‘admit’ with ‘admitted’
39. (c) Correct – ‘if he had not heard the news’
40. (c) Replace ‘may’ with ‘might’
41. (a,c) Correct – ‘I would give’ and remove ‘had’ in (a)
42. (b) Replace ‘arrived’ with ‘arrive’.
43. (a) Replace ‘was’ with ‘is’
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44. (a) Replace ‘is’ with ‘has been’ same as Q.3
45. (*)
46. (c) ‘Since’ is used for a point of time whereas ‘for’ is used for a duration of
time; Replace ‘for’ with ‘since’
47. (a) Remove ‘will’
48. (c) Correct – ‘have met him’
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49. (a) Replace ‘had come’ with ‘came’
50. (b) the sayings or quotes do not change their tense in indirect speech,
Replace ‘was’ with ‘is’

TENSE LEVEL – 2.

1. (b) Replace ‘is’ with ‘was’

2. (a) Correct – ‘If I were you, I would tell’
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3. (c) Replace ‘expect’ with ‘expected’

4. (d) No error
5. (a) Replace ‘lived’ with ‘have been living’
6. (a) Replace ‘been adoring’ with ‘adored’
7. (a) Replace ‘was’ with ‘has been’
8. (a) Replace ‘got’ with ‘had got’.
9. (b) Correct – ‘when you had been’
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10. (a) Replace ‘would have’ with ‘had’
11. (c) Replace ‘will fall’ with ‘fall’
12. (a,c) Replace ‘used to study’ with ‘studies’ in (a) and ‘goes’ with ‘went’ in (c)
13. (a) Replace ‘been knowing’ with ‘known’
14. (a) Remove ‘had’
15. (b) Correct – ‘I have heard’
16. (a) Replace ‘will be’ with ‘am’
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17. (a) Replace ‘will get’ with ‘get’
18. (a) Replace ‘has’ with ‘had’
19. (c) Replace ‘keep’ with ‘kept’
20. (a) Replace ‘had not’ with ‘would not have’
21. (b) Correct – ‘been revised’
22. (c) Correct – ‘in case it rains’
23. (c) Correct – ‘has been there’
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24. (a,c) Replace ‘said to’ with ‘told’ and ‘rains’ with ‘rained’.
25. (d) No error
26. (c) ‘None’ takes singular HV; Replace ‘arrived’ with ‘has arrived’
27. (b) Specific time is given in past indefinite tense. Remove ‘has’
28. (a) Replace ‘are starting’ with ‘started’. “it is time/high time + V3”
29. (b) Replace ‘had ‘ with ‘have’
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30. (a) Replace ‘teaches’ with ‘is teaching’
31. (b) Replace ‘is getting up’ with ‘gets up’
32. (a) Replace ‘is hating’ with ‘hates’
33. (a) Replace ‘lived’ with ‘has been living’
34. (a) Replace ‘are coming’ with ‘come’
35. (a) Replace ‘are coming’ with ‘come’
36. (a) Condition can not be in future, Remove ‘will’.
37. (b) Replace ‘will complete’ with ‘completes’
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38. (b) Correct – ‘knocks at’

39. (a) Replace ‘made’ with ‘makes’
40. (a) Remove ‘has’ and put ‘had’
41. (b) Remove ‘has’
42. (b) Replace ‘has’ with ‘had’
43. (a) Remove ‘had’
44. (a) Replace ‘have taken’ with ‘took’
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45. (a) Replace ‘has had’ with ‘will have’ because sentence talks about next year
i.e. future.
46. (a) Replace ‘did’ with ‘had done’/ ‘was doing’
47. (a) Replace ‘is coming’ with ‘comes’
48. (b) Replace ‘happen’ with ‘had happened’
49. (b) Replace ‘grew’ with ‘growing’
50. (b) Replace ‘have’ with ‘did’
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TENSE LEVEL – 3.

1. (b) Correct – ‘I would also have gone’

2. (b) Correct – ‘you would have certainly succeded’
3. (a) Replace ‘did’ with ‘had’
4. (b) Replace ‘had’ with ‘did’
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5. (c) Replace ‘was’ with ‘were’ because imagination always takes ‘were’ as
helping verb.
6. (a) Correct – ‘If he apologizes’
7. (b) Correct – ‘If you break’
8. (c) Correct – ‘as if they’
9. (a) Replace ‘had’ with ‘would have had’
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10. (a) Remove ‘will’
11. (c) Correct – ‘If he provokes me’
12. (b) Replace ‘will’ with ‘would’
13. (c) Replace ‘will arrive’ with ‘arrives’
14. (a) Correct – ‘If he had confessed’
15. (b) Replace ‘will take’ with ‘takes’
16. (c) Remove ‘have’
17. (a) Correct ‘If I had realized’
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18. (b) Replace ‘will get’ with ‘get’

19. (a) Same as Q.5, Correct – ‘If I were’
20. (a) Remove ‘will’
21. (b) Replace ‘acted’ with ‘had acted’
22. (c) Replace ‘found’ with ‘have found’
23. (c) Correct – ‘we would have been’
24. (a) Replace ‘would have’ with ‘had’
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25. (b) Replace ‘will’ with ‘would’
26. (d) No error
27. (c) Replace ‘take’ with ‘have taken’
28. (a) Correct – ‘If I had realized’
29. (a) Replace ‘would have’ with ‘had’
30. (d) No error
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TENSE LEVEL – 4 (FILL IN THE BLANKS)
1. (b)
2. (a) ‘for + time duration’ is used in perfect continuous tense.
3. (b)
4. (d) When result is in future, then condition is in present.
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5. (b) It is time + ______ + (to +V1)
6. (d) For a series of actions, the first one is in perfect tense and latter one is in
indefinite tense.
7. (c)
8. (b) “If + past perfect ______, would have +V3 ________.
9. (d) Same as Q.2
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10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (*)
17. (b) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. (d) 22. (a) 23. (c)
24. (c) 25. (b) 26. (b) 27. (*) 28. (c) 29. (b) 30. (c)
31. (c) 32. (d) 33. (b) 34. (b) 35. (b) 36. (d) 37. (c)
38. (a) 39. (b) 40. (c) 41. (c) 42. (*) 43. (c) 44. (b)
45. (d) 46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (d) 51. (a)
52. (a) 53. (b) 54. (b) 55. (c) 56. (d) 57. (b) 58. (c)
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59. (a) 60. (b)

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