This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 13 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:The sentence 'By the time the pizza arrived, we had been waiting for over an hour' correctly uses a time marker. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Which sentence is written correctly in the past perfect continuous tense? A) She was been playing soccer when it started to rain. B) She have been playing soccer when it started to rain. C) She had playing soccer when it started to rain. D) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. 3. My friend was upset. She ..... for an hour. A) Was been waiting. B) Had been waiting. C) Is being waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 4. True or False:The sentence 'They have been waiting for the bus for an hour before it arrived.' is in the past perfect continuous tense. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Sameer ( ..... ) for two hours before he arrived. A) Has been driving. B) Had been driving. C) Was driving. D) Had been driven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been driving. 6. When the teacher walked in, the students were shouting. How can you rewrite this to show the shouting was happening for a while *before* she walked in? A) When the teacher walked in, the students had shouted. B) When the teacher walked in, the students had been shouting. C) When the teacher walked in, the students shouted. D) The students were shouting and the teacher had been walking in. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the teacher walked in, the students had been shouting. 7. True or False:To make a past perfect continuous sentence negative, you add 'not' right after the word 'been'. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Find the error in the sentence:'By the time I finished my homework, my brother had been watch TV for three hours.' A) The verb 'finished' should be 'finishing'. B) The verb 'watch' should be 'watching'. C) The duration 'for three hours' is incorrect. D) The phrase 'By the time' is used incorrectly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The verb 'watch' should be 'watching'. 9. Complete the sentence to show a consistent, past habit:My dad was a great cook because he ..... new recipes his whole life. A) Had been always trying. B) Always had been trying. C) Had been trying always. D) Had always been trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had always been trying. 10. Which sentence correctly places the adverb 'always'? A) They always had been arguing about video games. B) They had been always arguing about video games. C) They had always been arguing about video games. D) They had been arguing always about video games. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had always been arguing about video games. 11. True or False:The sentence 'She had been seeming tired for days before she finally took a break' is grammatically correct. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Which of the following sentences uses the past perfect continuous tense? A) We will have been working all day. B) I had been sleeping when the phone rang. C) He has been traveling for a week. D) They are going to be playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I had been sleeping when the phone rang. 13. Complete the sentence:He missed the first part of the movie because he ..... attention. A) Didn't pay. B) Hasn't been paying. C) Hadn't been paying. D) Wasn't paying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hadn't been paying. 14. Identify the error in this sentence:'He had been playing football when it started to rain.' A) The error is in the word 'football'. B) It should be 'He plays football when it started to rain.'. C) The sentence is correct as it is. D) The tense is incorrect; it should be 'He was playing football when it started to rain.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The tense is incorrect; it should be 'He was playing football when it started to rain.'. 15. True or False:In the sentence, 'By the time the pizza arrived, we had been waiting for an hour, ' the waiting happened *after* the pizza arrived. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. By the time the show started, they ..... (eat) dinner. A) Ate. B) Had been eating. C) Had eaten. D) Were eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had eaten. 17. Your friend says, 'I was studying for three hours.' How would you report this to someone else, emphasizing the duration before you spoke to her? A) She said she had been studying for three hours. B) She said she studied for three hours. C) She said she has been studying for three hours. D) She said she was studying for three hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She said she had been studying for three hours. 18. Imagine you're telling a story. Your character, Sarah, finally finished a huge painting. Which sentence best describes her long effort *before* she finished? A) Sarah was working on it when she finished. B) Sarah worked on it and then she was finished. C) Sarah had been working on that single painting for a month before she finally put her brush down. D) Sarah has been working on that painting for a month. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah had been working on that single painting for a month before she finally put her brush down. 19. My mother ..... all day, so she was tired. A) Cleaned. B) Was cleaning. C) Had been cleaning. D) Cleans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been cleaning. 20. Which sentence best contrasts a longer, earlier action with a shorter, later one? A) They had hiked for miles, then they saw the bear. B) They have been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. C) They had been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. D) They were hiking for miles when they were seeing the bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. 21. Which of these is not past perfect continuous tense? A) They had been to London. B) Richard had been practicing to sing the song since morning. C) We had been enjoying the program thoroughly for three hours. D) I had been helping him to do the task before I started the program. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They had been to London. 22. Choose the sentence with the same meaning:"Before I left the office, I had been working on the report all day." A) After I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. B) When I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. C) I had been working on the report all day after I left the office, . D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. 23. True or False:The following sentence is grammatically correct. 'She was tired because she had been studied for six hours.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Convert the following to past perfect continuous:'She studies for hours.' A) She had been studying for hours. B) She had studied for hours. C) She was studying for hours. D) She has studied for hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had been studying for hours. 25. True or False:The sentence 'I knew the answer because I had been paying attention' uses the past perfect continuous to show a completed action. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. We ..... (prepare) him for this race for months before he decided to quit. A) Had prepared. B) Had been prepared. C) Had been preparing. D) Had preparing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been preparing. 27. Complete the sentence with the correct negative form:We missed the start of the movie because we ..... attention to the time. A) Hadn't been paying. B) Hadn't paying. C) Not had been paying. D) Weren't be paying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't been paying. 28. True or False:The sentence 'They hadn't been waiting long' is a correct negative sentence 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. 29. Which question is formed correctly? A) You had been sleeping well?. B) Did you been sleeping well?. C) Been you sleeping well?. D) Had you been sleeping well before the alarm rang?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had you been sleeping well before the alarm rang?. 30. The roads were blocked in the morning. It ..... (snow) all night. A) Had been snowing. B) Had snowed. C) Had snow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been snowing. ← PreviousNext →Related 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