Name the tense: It took a while for me to understand.
What is simple present?
100
Name the tense: I will be studying all weekend.
What is future continuous?
100
These are the two strongest modals of advice in the present.
What are must and have got to?
100
Active or Passive: His car was being searched by the police.
What is passive?
200
Name the tense: I am learning about intelligence tests.
What is present continuous?
200
Name the tense: I was hoping to get a better grade.
What is past continuous?
200
Planned or Quick Decision: We're going to have a test on Friday.
What is planned?
200
Name the modal type: You must show ID to rent a car.
What is modal of necessity?
200
Name the agent: We were told by the teacher to stay in the classroom.
What is the teacher?
300
Name the tense: I have enrolled in a Chinese class.
What is present perfect?
300
Name the tense: I had never learned to take good notes.
What is past perfect?
300
Name the tense: I will have lived here for 1 year.
What is future perfect?
300
Name the modal type: You can't eat in the classroom.
What is modal of prohibition?
300
Active or Passive: People downloaded the file because it looked important.
What is active?
400
Name the tense: I have been studying for the IELTS test.
What is present perfect continuous?
400
Name the tense: I had been studying English for two years.
What is past perfect continuous?
400
Name the tense: We are meeting Sherman Alexie on Monday.
What is present continuous as future?
400
Name this modal type: I'm supposed to pick up my friend from school.
What is modal of obligation?
400
Make this sentence passive: The virus overwhelmed email systems, so companies had to shut them down.
What is "Email systems were overwhelmed by the virus, so they had to be shut down."
500
We use this tense to show how something that happened in the past is related to the present. It provides background information for present events and situations.
What is the present perfect?
500
This tense helps to show time relationships between two different events in the past. It is used to express the earlier activity or state.
What is past perfect?
500
Make a sentence in Future Perfect Continuous: he / will / study / have / for / been / 3 hours
What is "He will have been studying for 3 hours."
500
Make this past tense: I must not use my phone in class.
What is "I couldn't use my phone in class."
500
Why the agent is left out in the sentence: "A lot of coffee is drunk in Washington."