Time Clauses Exercises
Time clauses exercises with answers — practise future time clauses, past time clauses and mixed time clauses online. Choose the correct tense in the main clause and time clause after when, before, after, until, as soon as, by the time, once and while. Multiple choice questions and printable PDF worksheets from A2 to B2. 4 exercise sets with 80 questions (A2 - B2 Level).
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Future Time Clauses: Present Simple after When, Before, After & Until
Time Clauses Exercises
A2 ReadingNEWStudies Link Bad Sleep to Cancer Risk
Two big American studies say that bad sleep can raise cancer risk in young adults. The studies looked at over 18 million…
Future Time Clauses: By the Time, Once & Present Perfect
Time Clauses Exercises
Past Time Clauses: When, After, Before & While
Time Clauses Exercises
“When I ___ home, my family was having dinner.”
B1 ReadingNEWStudies Link Bad Sleep to Under-50 Cancer
Two large American studies say that bad sleep may raise the risk of cancer in adults under 50. The studies were shared a…
Mixed Time Clauses: All Tenses & Conjunctions
Time Clauses Exercises
“Hardly had she sat down ___ the phone rang.”
B2 ReadingNEWStudies Link Insomnia to Cancer Risk in Under-50s
Two large American studies have linked chronic poor sleep to a much higher risk of cancer in adults under 50. The findin…
Why practice Time Clauses exercises?
These exercises take you from basic future time clauses to advanced mixed-tense practice in four progressive sets. Start at A2 by learning the key rule: use present simple (not will) after when, before, after, until and as soon as. At B1, extend to by the time, once and present perfect in time clauses, plus the tricky difference between time clauses and noun clauses with when. Then practise past time clauses with past simple, past continuous and past perfect. The final B2 set mixes all tenses and adds advanced patterns like hardly … when and no sooner … than.