Top Past Tense Quizzes & Trivia

How good is your grammar? Do you know how to write or speak in the past tense? Taking one of our past tense quizzes will help you to see how much you actually know about using the past tense when you speak or write. Do you know why the French language has a compound and imperfect past tense, and when they are both used?

Do you know how to indicate that something happened in the past in Mandarin Chinese? Do you know how the use of past tense can relate to a hypothetical situation in the English language? If you, and your friends, think you are experts in using the past tense, then take our past tense quizzes and see how good you all really are.

Past Tense Questions and Answers

_____________ to the park on Sunday.

I went

I was going

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The Past Simple or Past Continuous

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______________ when I saw Neil. I stopped and had a chat.

I was running

I ran

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The Past Simple or Past Continuous

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When _____________ to the party?

did you go

were you going

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The Past Simple or Past Continuous

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Say the word out loud and then mark the correct pronunciation,"Wanted"

/t/

/d/

/id/

Past tense question from

Past Simple Pronunciation - Regular Verbs

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Say the word out loud and then mark the correct pronunciation,"Worked"

/t/

/d/

/id/

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Past Simple Pronunciation - Regular Verbs

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Say the word out loud and then mark the correct pronunciation,"Hoped"

/t/

/d/

/id/

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Past Simple Pronunciation - Regular Verbs

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I _____ last night

used to drink

drank

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USED TO or PAST SIMPLE

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I ____________ smoke when I was a child

didn’t use to

didn’t used to

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USED TO or PAST SIMPLE

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______________ drink?

Did you used to

Did you use to

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USED TO or PAST SIMPLE

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Choose the correct tense for the following sentence: I was studying all night for that history test.

past progressive

present progressive

future progressive

Past tense question from

Past, Present, and Future Progressive Tense Verbs

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Choose the correct tense for the following sentence: The doctor is examining the patient.

past progressive

present progressive

future progressive

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Past, Present, and Future Progressive Tense Verbs

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Choose the correct tense for the following sentence: I will be going on vacation next week.

past progressive

present progressive

future progressive

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Past, Present, and Future Progressive Tense Verbs

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