Language Comprehension | MCQs

Explanation

The sentence "They will have been writing their letters" is in the Future Perfect Continuous tense, which is used to describe an action that will be in progress at a specific point in the future and will have started before that point.

Explanation

 She has been living here for 2 years is the correct sentence. 

This is a sentence of Present Perfect Continuous Tense. 

 for is used with a period of time.

Since is used to refer to a specific point in time. 

Explanation

"We use 'has won' to indicate that Argentina has won the football World Cup in the past,

The use of 'has' implies a connection between the past action (winning the World Cup) and the present or current state."

Explanation

He gave up smoking two years ago. He used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day.

اس نے دو سال پہلے سگریٹ نوشی ترک کر دی تھی۔ وہ روزانہ 40 سگریٹ پیتا تھا۔

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The term "modal" means expressing mood and mood is a way to express the attitude of the speaker.

Option C is the correct answer because it denotes past habits.

ND13-07-2023

Explanation

By the time he was thirty, he had won many tournaments."

جب وہ تیس سال کا تھا، اس نے بہت سے ٹورنامنٹ جیت لیے تھے۔"

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"had won" is used in this sentence to convey the past perfect tense. 

This sentence, "By the time he was thirty" establishes a point in the past.

The action of winning tournaments ("had won") is placed before this past point in time

Explanation

I have been waiting for 3 hours

میں 3 گھنٹے سے انتظار کر رہا ہوں۔

The Tense of the sentence is Present Perfect Continuous tense because "have been waiting" is given in the sentence.

Have been in the form used with any other subject (including the pronouns I, we, and they)

ND18-9-2023

Explanation

past continuous + when + past tense formula

The formula is Subject + was/were + (verb + -ing) + object + other words

"I was walking down the street when it began to rain"

ND22-7-2023

Explanation

If I had gone to the party last night, I would have met a lot of people

اگر میں کل رات پارٹی میں جاتا تو بہت سے لوگوں سے ملتا

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 “Had gone” is the past perfect tense which means the action took place before the time of another event of the past.

would have in conditionals to talk about something that did not happen in the past

ND13-07-2023

Explanation

Tina has been writing her report since two o'clock. She's written twelve pages. 

since + point: a "point" is a precise moment in time - 9 o'clock, 1st January, Monday.

while

for + period: a "period" is a duration of time - five minutes, two weeks, six years.

For means "from the beginning of the period to the end of the period"

ND13-07-2023

Explanation

I shall have finished my work before sunset.