Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “As I Was Saying” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Simple & Continuous Tenses quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
How confident are you at knowing when to use (and how to form) Simple, or Continuous, forms of English verbs?
'As I was saying... ' (at some earlier point in time, e.g. before being interrupted), we should make sure you are happy with this in your everyday use of the language. Here are some questions on simple and continuous tenses to help you check.
'All being well' can be tacked onto almost anything, somewhat like 'inshallah' in the Muslim world: it means 'if all is well (as we pray it may be)'. Usually it refers to a present or future action when we can't be directly sure about it ('All being well, his plane should be in Cairo by now').
The middle verb-group is a Future Perfect, describing action which 'will have' been finished by some point in the future. Often it will be a process that has already started by the time when it is being discussed ('You will have finished this Quiz in a few more minutes').
The last group is Future Continuous: the action hasn't started yet, but at our chosen point in the future it will already be underway and carry on further beyond that time (hence, the Continuous element: -ING).