<p>Name ______</p><p>Simple Verb Tenses</p><p>SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE</p><p>1. (plan) Fred ______to work this Saturday.</p><p>2. (attend) My cousins ______church every Sunday.</p><p>3. (soar) The jetliner ______above the Pacific all the way to Hawaii.</p><p>4. (listen) Jurors must ______carefully to all witnesses in a trial.</p><p>5. (think) Laura ______she passed her math class.</p><p>SIMPLE PAST TENSE</p><p>1. (scratch) The prisoner ______his initials on the wall of his jail cell.</p><p>2. (promise) My son ______to wash my car on Saturday.</p><p>3. (arrive) The bus ______at the station ten minutes early.</p><p>4. (float) Five orange slices ______to the top of the punch bowl.</p><p>5. (struggle) The campers ______through the thick brush to reach the river.</p><p>SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE</p><p>1. (check) The nurse ______each hospital patient’s blood pressure daily.</p><p>2. (blossom) Those fruit trees ______in early spring.</p><p>3. (stand) Everyone ______when the judge enters the courtroom. 4. (wear) Johnny ______a dinosaur costume for Halloween.</p><p>5. (circle) The instructor ______any errors she finds in your essay. Underline the verb in each sentence. Then write the tense on the line.</p><p>Example: </p><p>__future__ Economic reform will help the Russian people.</p><p>______1. Czars had power in Russia until 1917.</p><p>______2. In 1917, revolutionaries overthrew the czar.</p><p>______3. Communists became dominant in the new government.</p><p>______4. The Communists created the Soviet Union from Russia and its neighbors.</p><p>______5. The communists controlled Russia for more than 70 years.</p><p>______6. In 1991, the Soviet Union ended.</p><p>______7. Russia became a republic.</p><p>______8. Communism no longer rules in Russia.</p><p>______9. Will the Russians build a democratic republic?</p><p>______10. We will learn the answer in the years ahead.</p><p>Complete each sentence with the tense of the verb indicated.</p><p>1. OPEC _(control)_ the oil production of many countries. (present)</p><p>2. In the past, many important oil-producing countries (join) OPEC. (past)</p><p>3. Representatives of the member countries _(meet)__ regularly. (present)</p><p>4. They _(discuss)__ the levels of oil production. (present)</p><p>5. Sometimes they _(decide)__ to lower production. (present) 6. That __(make)___ oil and gas prices increase. (future)</p><p>7. For example, in the 1970’s OPEC _(cut)__ production. (past)</p><p>8. As a result, gas prices in the United States ___(go)__ up. (past)</p><p>9. There _(be)_ long lines of cars at the gas pumps. (past)</p><p>10. _____ oil prices _(increase)_ again soon? (future)</p>