This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 11 (56 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She ..... to Portugal many times. A) Is going. B) Has been. C) Was going. D) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has been. 2. I ..... to Oregon twice last year A) Was going. B) Has been. C) Went. D) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went. 3. What ..... he ..... when I called him? A) Have-doing. B) Had-do. C) Had-been doing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had-been doing. 4. ..... he ..... the piano for a long time before the concert? A) Had-been practice. B) Had-been practicing. C) Had-practicing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been practicing. 5. I ..... my car when I was young. A) Crashed. B) Will crash. C) Had crashed. D) Have crashed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crashed. 6. Your friend tells you about their long wait for the bus yesterday. Which sentence best describes this using the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) I had waited for the bus. B) I was waiting for the bus for a long time. C) I had been waiting for the bus for an hour when it finally arrived. D) I have been waiting for the bus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I had been waiting for the bus for an hour when it finally arrived. 7. True or False:You use the Past Perfect Continuous tense to talk about an action that finished a long, long time ago and has no connection to any other past event. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Read the sentence: "My brother had been playing video games for two hours when our dad got home." Is this sentence written correctly in the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Why ..... they ..... the project before the deadline? A) Had-been completing. B) Had-completed. C) Have-complete. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been completing. 10. Which of these sentences is written in the past perfect continuous tense? A) She was playing soccer after school. B) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. C) She had played soccer last year. D) She has been playing soccer all day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. 11. Why ..... they ..... so much before they settled down? A) Had-been traveling. B) Had-been travel. C) Had-traveling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been traveling. 12. What is the Past Simple of the verb THINK? A) Thought. B) Thinked. C) Thinking. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thought. 13. He was really angry because he ..... (wait) for a month when the parcel arrived. A) Had waited. B) Had been waiting. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 14. A: ..... B:Yes, I have. I have been saving money since last week. A) Have you saving money?. B) Have you been saving money?. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have you been saving money?. 15. ..... you ..... on that project for a long time before the deadline? A) Have-working. B) Had-been working. C) Had-been work. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been working. 16. Read this sentence:'The ground was all muddy because it had been raining all morning.' Which action is described using the past perfect continuous tense? A) The ground was all muddy. B) It had been raining. C) The ground being muddy. D) It raining all morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It had been raining. 17. Carvio had brought her favorite novel but she ..... (left) her glasses at home. A) Had left. B) Had been leaving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had left. 18. Suraya never had any chance to see the books because Watie ..... them. A) Had sellen. B) Sold. C) Had sold. D) Sells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had sold. 19. He had had lunch before he attended the meeting. A) Past Continuous Tense. B) Future Tense. C) Present Perfect Tense. D) Past Perfect Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past Perfect Tense. 20. What does Past Perfect talk about? A) Something happened before something else. B) Something happened in the past, related to now. C) Something that is happening now. D) Promise and Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something happened before something else. 21. The dog has been outside ..... a long time A) Since. B) Nearly. C) For. D) Almost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For. 22. They ..... several expensive cars since getting that job. A) Owned. B) Were owning. C) Will own. D) Have owned. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have owned. 23. We use Past Continuous for? A) Something that happened again and again. B) Something that happened once in the past. C) Something that happened several times in the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something that happened again and again. 24. To build the past perfect continuous tense, which group of words do you always need to use before the main verb? A) Has been. B) Will have. C) Was/were. D) Had been. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been. 25. My friend didn't know the answers, because he ..... for the test. A) Hadn't studied. B) Hasn't studied. C) Didn't study. D) Wasn't studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't studied. 26. Why ..... she ..... when I called her? A) Had-been crying. B) Have-crying. C) Had-cried. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been crying. 27. Why ..... you ..... so much before the deadline? A) Had-been stressing. B) Had-stress. C) Have-stressed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been stressing. 28. How many hours ..... you ..... before the exam started? A) Had-studying. B) Had-been studied. C) Had-been studying. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had-been studying. 29. Helen ..... (not feel) well for two days when I ..... (visit) her last Sunday. A) Had not been feeling, visited. B) Did not feel, had been visiting. C) Doesn't feel, visits. D) Did not feel, visited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had not been feeling, visited. 30. How long ..... you ..... for the presentation to start? A) Have-wait. B) Had-been waiting. C) Had-waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been waiting. 31. Have you been winning the games? A) No, I haven't. B) No, I hasn't. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, I haven't. 32. To make the Past Perfect Continuous tense, what three parts do you need to put together? A) Had + been + verb-ing. B) Had + verb-ed. C) Was + verb-ing. D) Have + been + verb-ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had + been + verb-ing. 33. I had to have a break. I ..... (drive) so long. A) Had drove. B) Had been driving. C) Had drive. D) Had been drove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been driving. 34. How long ..... you ..... for the bus before it arrived? A) Had-been waiting. B) Have-wait. C) Had-waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been waiting. 35. ..... you ..... the book before you finished it? A) Had-been reading. B) Have-reading. C) Had-been read. D) Had-read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been reading. 36. Read this sentence carefully:'He was tired because he had been run all morning.' True or False:This sentence uses the past perfect continuous tense correctly. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. As soon as Betty ..... the door, the burglar alarm went off. (open) A) Was opening. B) Had opened. C) Opened. D) Had opended. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had opened. 38. How long ..... you ..... for the train to arrive? A) Have-wait. B) Had-been waiting. C) Had-waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been waiting. 39. Past Simple refers to? A) Actions or events in the present. B) Action or events in the past. C) Action or events in the future. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Action or events in the past. 40. When the theft incident happened, Asyraf and Ghazali ..... at the bus stop. A) Chatted. B) Were chatting. C) Had chatted. D) Were chatted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were chatting. 41. She called the police when she ..... (see) a strange man was following her. A) Had been seeing. B) Had seen. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had seen. 42. Bonny no longer had her car. She ..... it. A) Sold. B) Has sold. C) Had sold. D) Did sell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had sold. 43. I ..... (watch) television for ten minutes when the phone ..... (ring). A) Watched, rang. B) Had been watching, rang. C) Watched, had rung. D) Had watched, rang. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been watching, rang. 44. How long ..... he ..... before he got the promotion? A) Had-worked. B) Have-work. C) Had-been working. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had-been working. 45. ..... she been living in New York for two years? A) Have. B) Has. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has. 46. I was really hungry. I ..... anything since the morning. (not eat) A) Hadn't eaten. B) Haven't eaten. C) Hasn't eaten. D) Wasn't eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't eaten. 47. How long ..... she ..... before she got the job? A) Have-applied. B) Had-been applying. C) Had-apply. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been applying. 48. True or False:To make the past perfect continuous tense, you always need the words 'had' and 'been' plus a main verb ending in '-ing'. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. ..... (you, have) breakfast before you attended your morning classes? A) Had you had. B) Had you been having. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had you had. 50. Imagine you want to change the sentence "I was building a Lego castle" to show the action was happening for a while *before* something else happened. Which is the best way to demonstrate this using the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) I had been building a Lego castle when my sister knocked it over. B) I am building a Lego castle. C) I was been building a Lego castle. D) I had built a Lego castle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I had been building a Lego castle when my sister knocked it over. 51. Why ..... he ..... so much before the presentation? A) Had-been practicing. B) Have-practiced. C) Had-practice. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been practicing. 52. True or False:The sentence 'The dog was barking at the mailman' is a correct example of the past perfect continuous tense. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. What have you been doing lately? A) I've been work a lot. B) I've been working a lot. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I've been working a lot. 54. What ..... they ..... when the fire alarm went off? A) Had-been doing. B) Had-do. C) Have-done. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been doing. 55. When Halim arrived at Siti's house, she ..... out. A) Gone. B) Had already gone. C) Went. D) Was going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had already gone. 56. How long have you been studying French? A) I've been studying French about two years. B) I've been studying French yesterday. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I've been studying French about two years. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 1Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 2Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 3Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 4Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 5Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 6Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 7Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books