Time Mastery: Full Range of Tenses for Class 8

This Class 8 worksheet provides a comprehensive practice of all tenses in English, helping learners build accuracy in context. With activities like matching, multiple choice, rewriting, and sentence transformation, students gain command over past, present, and future forms along with their continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous aspects.

Why Mastering Tenses Matters in Grammar?  

This worksheet helps learners:  
1. Identify and use all tense forms with clarity.  
2. Apply tense knowledge in meaningful contexts.  
3. Transform sentences across tense categories with accuracy.  
4. Write confidently with the right tense for storytelling, reporting, and description.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?  

This worksheet includes four focused activities:

Exercise 1 – Match the Following  
Students match sentences with their correct tenses, e.g., *By next year, they will have moved abroad* → Future Perfect.

Exercise 2 – Multiple Choice Questions  
Learners pick the correct tense form, e.g., *She ___ for the exam since morning* → *has been studying*.

Exercise 3 – Sentence Transformation  
Students rewrite sentences by changing their tense as instructed, e.g., *She visited her grandmother yesterday (Change to Present Simple)* → *She visits her grandmother*.

Exercise 4 – Sentence Writing  
Students create six sentences on the topic “An Act of Kindness I Did,” using six different tenses.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Match the Following  
1. By next year, they will have moved abroad. – Future Perfect  
2. We play badminton on weekends. – Simple Present  
3. She was baking a cake when I called. – Past Continuous  
4. They will be attending the meeting tomorrow. – Future Continuous  
5. He has visited London twice. – Present Perfect  
6. We will start our journey at dawn. – Simple Future  
7. She had finished her meal before the movie. – Past Perfect  
8. They were repairing the roof yesterday. – Past Continuous  

Exercise 2 – MCQs  
1. has been studying  
2. will have completed  
3. went  
4. had finished  
5. play  
6. is eating  
7. will have moved  
8. was writing  

Exercise 3 – Sentence Transformation  
1. She visits her grandmother.  
2. He will have read a novel.  
3. They have gone to the market.  
4. He will have eaten lunch before 2 pm.  
5. I am playing chess every Sunday.  
6. We will have been finishing the work.  
7. He wrote letters.  
8. They have sung songs.  
9. We should meet tomorrow.  
10. She will have solved the problem.  
11. She wrote a letter every day.  
12. They go to the market every Sunday.  
13. I will have finished my meal before 2 pm.  
14. We start the project tomorrow.  
15. He was playing cricket.  
16. They are watching a movie.  
17. She had lived here for five years.  
18. We have completed our work.  
19. He has eaten dinner.  
20. They are finishing the project.  

Exercise 4 – Sample Sentences (Topic: An Act of Kindness I Did)  
1. Present Simple – I help my friend with his homework.  
2. Past Simple – I gave food to a stray dog.  
3. Present Continuous – I am helping my mother in the kitchen.  
4. Future Simple – I will help my classmate tomorrow.  
5. Present Perfect – I have donated my old books.  
6. Future Perfect – By evening, I will have helped my neighbor clean his garden.  

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