Tenses Worksheet for Class 9 – Answer Key

Section A: Fill in the blanks

1. goes
2. are playing
3. has completed
4. have been preparing
5. visited
6. was reading
7. had left
8. had been waiting
9. will call
10. will be travelling
11. will have finished
12. will have been working

Section B: Choose the correct option

1. B. rises
2. C. is knocking
3. B. have read
4. C. has been studying
5. C. had begun
6. B. were taking
7. C. had lost
8. C. will be taking
9. B. will have completed
10. A. will have been travelling

Section C: Identify the tense

1. Simple Present Tense
2. Present Continuous Tense
3. Present Perfect Tense
4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
5. Simple Past Tense
6. Past Continuous Tense
7. Past Perfect Tense
8. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
9. Simple Future Tense
10. Future Continuous Tense
11. Future Perfect Tense
12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Section D: Correct the errors

1. She goes to school every day.
2. I know the answer.
3. He completed his work yesterday.
4. They have been waiting for an hour.
5. When I reached home, my mother was cooking dinner.
6. She had gone to the market before it started raining.
7. We were watching television at 9 p.m.
8. He will go to Jaipur next week.
9. By tomorrow, I will have finished my assignment.
10. By next month, they will have been building the house for a year.

Section E: Rewrite the sentences

1. She is writing a letter.
2. They played football.
3. He has eaten breakfast.
4. I was watching a movie.
5. She will have completed her homework.
6. They have been living here for five years.
7. He had repaired the car.
8. We will be attending the meeting.
9. The workers had been working on the bridge for three hours before it began to rain.
10. By 8 p.m., she will have completed the report.

Section F: Match the tense

1. B — Present Perfect Continuous
2. C — Past Perfect
3. D — Future Continuous
4. E — Simple Present
5. A — Future Perfect
6. F — Past Continuous

Section G: Complete the paragraph

1. woke
2. had been preparing
3. was revising
4. came
5. had already finished
6. felt
7. will perform
8. will have completed
9. will have received

Section H: Translate into English

1. He goes for a walk every morning.
2. I have been studying for two hours.
3. They were eating when I arrived.
4. The train had left before he arrived.
5. I will have completed this work by next Monday.
6. By next year, he will have been working here for five years.

Section I: Mixed-tense challenge

1. boils
2. was cooking
3. had written
4. have been living
5. will have been waiting
6. are preparing
7. drinks; is having
8. met; have not seen
9. will have completed
10. had been writing

Total marks: 91