Fill in the blanks with an appropriate tense form.

1. What are you going to do when you ……………………… (finish / are finishing) high school?

2. This time next week, I …………………….. a presentation at office. (will give / will be giving)

3. If you continue to work hard, you …………………….. the first prize. (will get / would get / will be getting)

4. I am not sure if we ………………………. to come. (will be able / are able to / were able to)

5. She ……………………… (does not / has not) understand the consequences of her actions. She ……………………………. (will find out / will be finding out / would find out)

6. He ………………………. (takes / took) six months to finish that project.

7. I pleaded for help but no one ………………………. (comes / came) forward.

8. If they had invited us, we ………………………. to their party. (would go / would have gone)

9. I am not sure. I ……………………… back by evening. (will be / should be)

Answers

1. What are you going to do when you finish high school? (When both clauses refer to the future, we use a simple present tense in the clause introduced by when.)

2. This time next week, I will be giving a presentation at office. (The future continuous is used to say that an activity will be going on at a particular point of time in future.)

3. If you continue to work hard, you will get the first prize. (To talk about real and possible situations, we use a simple present tense in the if-clause and will + v1 in the main clause.)

4. I am not sure if we will be able to come.

5. She does not understand the consequences of her actions. She will find out.

6. He took six months to finish that project. (Use the simple past to talk about finished events.)

7. I pleaded for help but no one came forward. (If the verb in one coordinate clause is in the past tense, the verb in the other coordinate clauses too will most probably be in the past tense. Clauses connected by and, but and or are examples of coordinate clauses.)

8. If they had invited us, we would have gone to their party. (To talk about a hypothetical situation, we use a past perfect in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.)

9. I am not sure. I should be back by evening. (Will shows certainty. Should shows probability.)