Quiz a non-native speaker on the names of all the English tenses.
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- Q1What is the name of the tense used to describe actions happening at the moment of speaking?Future SimplePresent PerfectPast ContinuousPresent Continuous30s
- Q2What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that happened in the past and have already finished?Future ContinuousPresent Perfect ContinuousPast PerfectPast Simple30s
- Q3What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that happened in the past but are still relevant or have an impact on the present?Past SimplePresent PerfectPresent SimpleFuture Perfect30s
- Q4What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that will happen in the future?Past SimpleFuture SimplePresent ContinuousFuture Perfect30s
- Q5What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future?Present Perfect ContinuousFuture ContinuousPresent SimplePast Perfect30s
- Q6What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that will have finished before a specific time in the future?Past SimpleFuture PerfectPast ContinuousPresent Perfect30s
- Q7What is the name of the tense used to describe hypothetical situations and conditions?InfinitiveImperativeConditionalGerund30s
- Q8What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that happen repeatedly, habitually, or as a general truth?Past SimpleFuture SimplePresent PerfectPresent Simple30s
- Q9What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that were ongoing in the past before another past action happened?Future ContinuousPresent Perfect ContinuousPast PerfectPast Continuous30s
- Q10What is the name of the tense used to describe actions that were completed before another past action happened?Past ContinuousPresent PerfectFuture PerfectPast Perfect30s