Common Errors in Tense Grammar for SSC Exam

(18) I have just hired a typewriter and I…….type now-a-days.

(a) am learning 

(b) have learnt

(c) learnt 

(d) will learn

(19) By July 2005, she……in this firm for eleven years.

(a) will work 

(b) will have been working  

(c) will be working

(d) has been working

(20) The train…..before we reach the station.

(a) will have departed

(b) has departed  

(c) is departing 

(d) was departing

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(21) India…….freedom in 1947.

(a) attains

(b) attained 

(c) has attained

(d) was attained

(22) He…….out for an evening walk after he had taken my dinner.

(a) go 

(b) went 

(c) have gone 

(d) will go

(23) My sister was in the bathroom when she………the call-bell.

(a) rang

(b) have rang 

(c) ring 

(d) an ringing

(24) She….a better job next month.

(a) will get 

(b) have got 

(c) got 

(d) get

(25) I went into the hostel to see what students……

(a) cook 

(b) is cooking 

(c) was cooking

(d) has cooked

(26) I went into the hostel to see what students…..

(a) are doing 

(b) did 

(c) were doing 

(d) doing

(27) WhileI reached the station, I found Shashi…….for me.

(a) Watered

(b) has watered

(c) was watering  

(d) had watered