This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We ate appples from the tree that my grandfather ..... (to plant) many years before. A) Had planted. B) Has planted. C) Haven't planted. D) Have planted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had planted. 2. .... (she / fight) against the disease for long before she died? A) She been fighting. B) Has she been fighting. C) Had she been fighting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had she been fighting. 3. Is the following correct?I had been drinking coffee all morning. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 4. He hasn't decided on a career yet, but he ..... about it lately. A) Had been thinking. B) Has being thinking. C) Have been thinking. D) Has been thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has been thinking. 5. Why was your jacket so wet?-Because it ..... all day. A) Had rained. B) Had been raining. C) Raining. D) Rained. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been raining. 6. I did not have any money because I ..... my wallet. A) Was loosing. B) Had loosed. C) Had lost. D) Lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had lost. 7. Amalia ..... (move) to New York before she ..... (get) married. A) Moved /had gotten. B) Has move / got. C) Moved / got. D) Had moved / got. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had moved / got. 8. They had been walking for over 6 hours ..... A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) Past Perfect with been. D) Progressing Past Perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect Continuous. 9. My father ..... his car A) Had fixing been. B) Had been fixing. C) Had been fix. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been fixing. 10. Which one of these about past perfect continuous is correct? A) Past Perfect Continuous stresses duration, not just completion. B) Past perfect continuous focuses on the action that had already been completed. C) Past perfect continuous is for an action that was not finished. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect Continuous stresses duration, not just completion. 11. He ..... painting the front wall of the house a moment ago. A) Just finished. B) Just finish. C) Finished. D) Has just finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has just finished. 12. They ..... for this moment for years. A) Had wait. B) Hadn't been wait. C) Had been waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 13. We lived in the house that my father ..... ..... A) Had building. B) Had built. C) Is building. D) Was built. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had built. 14. You ..... the party by the time everything happened. (leave) A) Had left. B) Had been leaving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had left. 15. The colour of the dress was much brighter that it ..... in the internet advert. A) Had been looking. B) Had looked. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had looked. 16. My best friend's name is Fatima. I ..... her for about 8 years. A) Have known. B) Knew. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have known. 17. They hadn't been talking ..... June. A) Since. B) By. C) At. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Since. 18. Yesterday, my brother said he (stop) ..... smoking for three months. A) Was stopping. B) Stop. C) Stopped. D) Had been stopping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been stopping. 19. Which sentence correctly uses the Past Perfect Continuous tense with a time expression? A) They had been studying English tomorrow. B) I had been going to the gym next week. C) He has been sleeping since two hours. D) We had been waiting for you since morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We had been waiting for you since morning. 20. Paul and Molly ..... on the phone for an hour when the line broke. A) Had been talking. B) Had been talked. C) Have talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been talking. 21. Harold ..... her secret for a while. A) Had known. B) Had knewn. C) Had know. D) Had knew. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had known. 22. Is the following correct?I didn't play tennis with Jack yesterday because I had already played tennis with Peter that morning. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 23. I ..... (wait) for her for hours before she came (PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS) A) Had waited. B) Had been waited. C) Had been waiting. D) Has been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 24. Before last summer, I ..... in a foreign country. A) Never lived. B) Was never living. C) Had never lived. D) Had never been living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had never lived. 25. Studying in a boarding school ..... Mark to make international friends. A) Had helped. B) Has helped. C) Had been helping. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had helped. 26. He was tired because he ..... (not sleep) well the night before. A) Has not been sleep. B) Had not been sleep. C) Has not been sleeping. D) Had not sleeping. E) Had not been sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Had not been sleeping. 27. The police told me that someone ..... into our neighbour's house. (BREAK) A) Had broken. B) Broke. C) Have briken. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had broken. 28. I watched a movie because I had been bored all day.Which of the 2 events happened first? A) I watched a movie. B) I had been bored all day. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I had been bored all day. 29. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS describes an event that started before a specific moment in time, and it was still going on at that time in the past. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Bayley ..... (read) 4 chapters of the book by 8 o'clock. A) Had read. B) Had been reading. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had read. 31. I ..... before my alarm clock rang. (wake up) A) Had woken up. B) Had been waking up. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had woken up. 32. I ..... for five hours when we arrived in the city. A) Had been driving. B) Had driven. C) Had drive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been driving. 33. Has Anita been keeping distance from me lately? A) Present Perfect Continuous Tense. B) Past Perfect Continuous Tense. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Present Perfect Continuous Tense. 34. We ..... (not listen) to the teacher, while she was speaking. A) Weren't listening. B) Didn't listen. C) Hadn't listened. D) Haven't listened. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weren't listening. 35. Michael didn't want to see the movie because he ..... the book yet. (not read) A) Hadn't read. B) Had read. C) Didn't read. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't read. 36. The moment we ..... the crocodiles, we knew we were in trouble. A) Seen. B) Saw. C) Watched. D) Had seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saw. 37. By the age of 10, Mozart ..... three operas and 25 symphonies. A) Had composed. B) Had composed / had been composing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had composed. 38. The man had managed to stay alive for 5 days before he was rescued. A) Past Perfect Simple. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect Simple. 39. Robert ..... in Melaka since his first daughter was born. A) Live. B) Lived. C) Been living. D) Had been living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been living. 40. We ..... there for 20 minutes when you called me. A) Had been waiting. B) Waited. C) Had waited. D) Have been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 41. My mom found the key after we ..... to open the door for 10 minutes. A) Have been trying. B) Tried. C) Were trying. D) Had been trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been trying. 42. I had arranged to meet Kate, but I was late. When I finally arrived, ..... for me. She was annoyed because ..... such a long time. A) She was waiting/ she'd been waiting. B) She'd been waiting/ she was waiting. C) She'd been waiting/ she'd been waiting. D) She was waiting/ she was waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was waiting/ she'd been waiting. 43. I didn't know who he was. I ..... never ..... him before. A) Hadn't seen. B) Had seen. C) Had been seeing. D) Hadn't been seeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had seen. 44. James told me you ..... the old vicarage two years before your son's birth. A) Had been buying. B) Had bought. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had bought. 45. ..... Kate woke up, Ann ..... breakfast for 2 hours. A) For the time; had been cooking. B) By the time; had been cooking. C) By the way; had been cooking. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By the time; had been cooking. 46. Before he ..... (leave) for his trip, he ..... (pack) his suitcase. A) Had been leaving / packs. B) Had been left / pack. C) Has leaving / packed. D) Had been leaving / packed. E) Has been left / packed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been leaving / packed. 47. Louis confessed he ..... (plan) that party for some days. A) Has planned. B) Had been planning. C) Had planned. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had planned. 48. What is the purpose of the past perfect continuous in the following sentence:Richard needed a holiday because he had been working hard for six months. A) To describe a past action, already started and continued up to another action o time in the past. B) To express the duration before something in the past. C) To describe the cause of something in the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express the duration before something in the past. 49. They ..... in Beijing for three years when he lost his job. A) Have been living. B) Had lived. C) Lived. D) Had been living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been living. 50. We had been driving for nearly 100 kilometres before we finally ..... a service station we could stop at. A) Had being found. B) Had been finding. C) Had found. D) Found. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Found. 51. The man sitting next to me was very nervous, I think he ..... before. A) Had never fly. B) Had never flown. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had never flown. 52. We use "was" or "were" in Past Perfect Continuous. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 53. He ..... for 15 minutes when he understood he had lost his swimsuit. A) Had been swimming. B) Had swum. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been swimming. 54. He'd been watching TV all morning when he decided to go outside. What happened first? A) He decided to go outside. B) He'd been watching TV. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He'd been watching TV. 55. When we finally reached the top, it was wonderful ..... for eight hours. A) We climbed. B) We've been climbing. C) We'd been climbing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We'd been climbing. 56. BY THE TIME the ship ..... some people had been waiting A) Arrived. B) Had been arriving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arrived. 57. They weren't doing their homework. A) No. B) Yes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 58. Joan's grandpa was upset. He ..... for an hour. A) Had been waiting. B) Had waited. C) Had been waited. D) Had been wait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 59. She ..... the letter away when she noticed it was not important. A) Had thrown. B) Had been throwing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had thrown. 60. The football fans ..... the town for some time when the police arrived. A) Had been demolishing. B) Had demolished. C) Had demolish. D) None of the above. 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