This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Had Muhammad ..... driving? A) Been. B) Has. C) Be. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Been. 2. She ..... (not/sit) at home for long before she went out. A) Has not been sat. B) Had not been sitting. C) Didn't sit. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not been sitting. 3. What is the formation of past perfect tense? A) Have + past participle. B) Was + past participle. C) Had + past participle. D) Has + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had + past participle. 4. Which sentence is a correct example of the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) I was studying for the test. B) I had been studying for the test. C) I have been studying for the test. D) I had studied for the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I had been studying for the test. 5. The question form of Past Perfect Tense is ..... A) Have + S + V3 + O/C?. B) Was + S + V-ing + O/C?. C) Did + S + V1 + O/C?. D) Had + S + V3 + O/C?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had + S + V3 + O/C?. 6. My family had ..... giraffes when my brother interested seeing tiger. A) Had seen. B) Have been watching. C) Saw. D) Been seeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Been seeing. 7. What is the main purpose of the past perfect continuous tense? A) To describe an action that is happening right now. B) To describe an action that happened for a period of time before another past event. C) To describe a future plan that was made in the past. D) To describe a single, completed action in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To describe an action that happened for a period of time before another past event. 8. What is the result of the boss talking to clients on Skype for hours? A) She wanted to eat lunch. B) She wanted to go home. C) She wanted to talk more. D) She wanted a break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wanted a break. 9. Which word best completes the sentence? "She had never seen snow ..... she moved to Canada." A) After. B) Until. C) Before. D) Since. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before. 10. Tom ..... TV when his mother came home. A) Watches. B) Watched. C) Had been watching. D) Was watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been watching. 11. Before finally dead on June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson ..... a pop singer since 1980's A) Had. B) Had been. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been. 12. Apakah kamu telah tidur selama satu jam ketika aku datang? A) Had you been sleeping an hour when I came?. B) Had you been sleep for an hour when I came?. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had you been sleeping an hour when I came?. 13. Janet was tired that morning but she ..... to help her friend so she made herself get out of bed. A) Has been promising. B) Did promise. C) Had promised. D) Has promised. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had promised. 14. How long ..... (you/ learn) English before you took TOEFL? A) Had you been learning. B) Learnt. C) Has learnt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had you been learning. 15. Past perfect continuous tense refers to an action that started in the distant past and continued in the past A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. When we met, you ..... (work) at that company for six months A) Had been working. B) Working. C) Are working. D) Were working. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been working. 17. Tiffany ..... her final decision when her parents called her. A) Have made. B) Had maden. C) Has maden. D) Had made. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had made. 18. True or False:In the sentence 'I had not been sleeping well, ' the word 'not' is placed correctly. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Complete the question: ..... you been waiting long when the bus finally arrived? A) Have. B) Did. C) Was. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had. 20. After swimming all day they were hungry.They were hungry because they ..... (swim) all day. A) Had swam. B) Had been swimming. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been swimming. 21. I ..... book about Indonesian history. A) Been reading. B) Had been reading. C) Had reading. D) Has been reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been reading. 22. My sister roommate ..... (be) upset. She ..... (wait) for an hour. A) Were, waiting. B) Were, had been waiting. C) Was, waiting. D) Was, had been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was, had been waiting. 23. Complete the sentence:My thumbs were sore because I ..... video games for hours. A) Did play. B) Have played. C) Had been playing. D) Was playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been playing. 24. Complete the sentence:By the time the movie started, we ..... for our friends for over twenty minutes. A) Were waiting. B) Had been waiting. C) Have waited. D) Waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 25. Why ..... the baby's face so dirty? He ..... chocolate. A) Had been / had been eating. B) Were / has been eating. C) Was / had been eating. D) Was / had ate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was / had been eating. 26. True or False:The sentence 'They had been playing soccer for two hours' describes an action that was completed before a specific time in the past. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. I ..... (wait) for her for hours before she came. A) Had waited. B) Has been waiting. C) Had been waiting. D) Had been waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been waiting. 28. Select the sentence that correctly places the adverb 'always' to emphasize a repeated past habit. A) He always had been wanting to visit Japan. B) He had been always wanting to visit Japan. C) He had always been wanting to visit Japan. D) He had been wanting always to visit Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He had always been wanting to visit Japan. 29. True or False:In the sentence, 'He'd been trying to fix his bike all afternoon, ' the contraction ''d' stands for 'would.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. My phone died because I ..... it all morning. Which is the correct negative form to complete the sentence? A) Haven't been charging. B) Hadn't been charging. C) Wasn't charging. D) Not had charged. 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