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.

When it comes to writing, proper use of grammar is required; otherwise it won't be as effective as it could be, and on top of that, it would make the text full of errors. This quiz is about the usage of tenses,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 17529 | Last updated: Jul 21, 2020

Sample Question
When Airi _______ at school, she realized she _______ her textbook.

Had arrived, forgot

Arrived, had forgotten

Forgot, had arrived

Had forgotten, arrived

Quiz: The Past Simple Or Past Continuous

We are here with just another English grammar quiz; this quick quiz will test your knowledge of the Past Continuous and the Past Simple. So, if you are a student studying for your class test or an English learner, take this quiz...

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 20074 | Last updated: Jul 8, 2020

Sample Question
_____________ to the park on Sunday.

I went

I was going

Grammar Test: Used To Or Past Simple

USED TO is used to express something that you did frequently in the past. It sometimes refers to contrast: something you used to do in the past, but don’t do anymore; or something you didn’t use to do in the past,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 21328 | Last updated: Jul 27, 2020