Level: B1
Common Tense Mistakes — Practice
The tense mistakes ESL learners make most often — all in one quiz. Decide whether each sentence is Correct or Wrong. 46 paired examples with audio.
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- Present perfect with specific past time
- I have seen him yesterday. – Wrong
- I saw him yesterday. – Correct
- She has moved here in 2020. – Wrong
- She moved here in 2020. – Correct
- He has graduated two years ago. – Wrong
- He graduated two years ago. – Correct
- Stative verbs in continuous form
- I am knowing the answer. – Wrong
- I know the answer. – Correct
- She is having a new car. – Wrong
- She has a new car. – Correct
- I was wanting a pizza. – Wrong
- I wanted a pizza. – Correct
- He is owning two houses. – Wrong
- He owns two houses. – Correct
- Will + to
- She will to come tomorrow. – Wrong
- She will come tomorrow. – Correct
- I will to call you later. – Wrong
- I will call you later. – Correct
- Wrong helper in questions / negatives
- Where you live? – Wrong
- Where do you live? – Correct
- Played you tennis yesterday? – Wrong
- Did you play tennis yesterday? – Correct
- You not like it? – Wrong
- Don’t you like it? – Correct
- What you do? – Wrong
- What do you do? – Correct
- Mixing tenses in a story
- Yesterday I go to the store and buy bread. – Wrong
- Yesterday I went to the store and bought bread. – Correct
- Last week she calls me and tells me the news. – Wrong
- Last week she called me and told me the news. – Correct
- When I was a child, I play in the park every day. – Wrong
- When I was a child, I played in the park every day. – Correct
- Since vs for
- I have lived here since 5 years. – Wrong
- I have lived here for 5 years. – Correct
- I have lived here for 2020. – Wrong
- I have lived here since 2020. – Correct
- She has worked there since 3 months. – Wrong
- She has worked there for 3 months. – Correct
- 3rd person -s missed
- She play tennis every day. – Wrong
- She plays tennis every day. – Correct
- He don’t like coffee. – Wrong
- He doesn’t like coffee. – Correct
- Forming the present progressive
- Look! It rains. – Wrong
- Look! It is raining. – Correct
- She is study right now. – Wrong
- She is studying right now. – Correct