Class 10 English Grammar — Test Set 1
Subject: English
Topic: Grammar
Total Questions: 14
Marks: 14
Questions
1. Tenses
Fill the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the live feed on a school news channel.
Congratulations Change Makers! The regional competition awards have been announced and our school music club _________ the first prize.
A. had been won
B. will win
C. was winning
D. has won
2. Tenses
Complete the line from a self-awareness song by filling the blank with the correct option.
The river runs through your veins
The trees and mountains _______________ your name
The moon and stars watch over
You’re guiding your way back home
To dream the night away.
A. will call
B. call
C. had called
D. calls
3. Tenses
Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the given sentence about Ajanta and Ellora Caves.
The caves of Ajanta and Ellora are the magnificent works of sculpture. Whoever goes there _________ spellbound.
A. becomes
B. become
C. becoming
D. has
4. Tenses
Choose the option that completes the sentence below correctly:
She had already begun eating her dinner by the time I ___________ there.
A. reached
B. had reached
C. was reaching
D. had been reaching
5. Tenses
Complete the line from the poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson with the correct option.
I come from haunts of coot and hern
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern
To __________ down a valley.
A. bickers
B. had bickered
C. will bicker
D. bicker
6. Tenses
The doctor _________ examined the patient when the family arrived.
A. was
B. has
C. had
D. have
7. Tenses
Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option:
Since he woke up he ________.
A. has been study
B. has been studying
C. had studied
D. is studying
8. Tenses
When a satellite ______________ (launch) the rocket begins by going slowly upwards.
A. is launched
B. are launched
C. have been launched
D. were launched
9. Tenses
Select the correct option to fill in the blank about Dipti’s nature.
She always _____ every person.
A. trust
B. trusts
C. trusting
D. have trusted
10. Tenses
Fill in the blank with the correct option.
When one gazes at the sky, the glimmer of stars ___________ the vastness above.
A. fill
B. fills
C. to fill
D. is filling
11. Tenses
Choose the option that completes the sentence below correctly:
My family ___________ in Chennai for five years now.
A. has lived
B. has been living
C. had lived
D. lived
12. Tenses
Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete an online update.
The climate control comment by an activist _________ on social media yesterday.
A. blow up
B. blew up
C. is blown
D. will be blown
13. Tenses
Complete the given narrative by filling the blank with the correct option:
As I was standing on the dock, looking out at the lake for the last time, a feeling of emptiness ________ over me like darkness.
A. will wash
B. had washed
C. will have washed
D. washed
14. Tenses
Choose an appropriate answer to complete the conversation given below.
Kartika: How old are you?
Ron: I am turning twenty in the coming week.
Kartika: For how many years have you been playing the guitar?
Ron: ………………………………
A. Next week, when I turn twenty, I have played the guitar for twelve years.
B. Next week, when I turn twenty, I am going to play the guitar for twelve years.
C. Next week, when I turn twenty, I will have been playing the guitar for twelve years.
D. Next week, when I turn twenty, I was going to be playing the guitar for twelve years.