Having been asked frequently for exercises to go with The English Tenses Practical Grammar Guide, I compiled this list to share all the tenses exercises on this site together. I’ve since also produced The English Tenses Exercise Book to add over 150 more exercises to challenge yourself, and have now updated this list to contain more on offer from this site.

Check out the list below – and if you like these, do check out the full exercise book.

27 English Tenses Exercises

This list includes a diverse selection of exercises covering different areas of understanding the English tenses, from forming the tenses and understanding grammar words connected to them (such as infinitives and participles), through to comparing tenses in use and choosing the correct one. They are in no particular order.

• Present Simple vs Present Continuous
• Mixed Tenses: Simple or Continuous?
• Ongoing or Complete? Simple vs Continuous
• Past Simple vs Perfect Tenses
• Simple vs Continuous – Verbs of State
• Identifying the Bare Infinitive
• The Bare Infinitive and the Present Simple
• The Bare Infinitive in Mixed Tenses
• Past Simple Affirmatives and Negatives
• Forming Simple Tense Questions
• Forming Negative Simple Tenses
• Mixed Negative Simple Questions
• Mixed Past Tenses: Sentence Matching
• Mixed Past Continuous in Use
• Mixed Past Perfect in Use
• Mixed Future Tenses (curiously one of the most popular pages on this website)
• Mixed Future Tenses 2
• Mixed Tenses – short quiz
• Using Past Participles with Perfect Tenses
• Mixed Tenses – Present Participles
• Past Tenses in Narrative Use
• Felix and the Umbrella – Mixed Past Simple Uses
• The Christmas Mess – Mixed Tenses Reading
• Festive Language – Mixed Tenses Exercise
• The Gift of Time: Mixed Tenses Reading
• Bake a Perfect Loaf: Mixed Tenses Reading
• Creepy Halloween Mixed Tenses

I hope you find some of these exercises useful – if you do, there are plenty more in the book here, and there are probably even some more on this site that I’ve missed!

Want to master the English tenses?

Learn all the rules with The English Tenses Practical Grammar Guide, and practise them with The English Tenses Exercise Book, which contains 160 exercises.