This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I had been working ..... 2018 A) Before. B) When. C) For. D) Since. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Since. 2. We ..... to visit Maggie in Belfast but there wasn't enough time. A) Had been planning. B) Have planned. C) Had planned. D) Have been planning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had planned. 3. The students had already completed the work when the teacher entered the class. A) Present continuous tense. B) Past perfect tense. C) Simple past tense. D) Past continuous tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past perfect tense. 4. I ..... visiting paris since 2006. A) Had been visiting. B) Have been visited. C) Have been visiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been visiting. 5. What is the past perfect continuous form of 'She walks to school every day'? A) She walked to school every day. B) She was walking to school every day. C) She had walked to school every day. D) She had been walking to school every day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She had been walking to school every day. 6. They ..... fruits for the meeting till they were told to stop. A) Has been cutting. B) Have been cutting. C) Have cutting. D) Had been cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been cutting. 7. Frame ..... from Anna for many months before she ..... him. A) Hadn't heard, called. B) Heard, called. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't heard, called. 8. Complete the question:' ..... had you been waiting before the train finally came?' A) When. B) How long. C) Were. D) Did. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How long. 9. The gardener ..... flower for twenty years. A) Had been planting. B) Has been planned. C) Was been planting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been planting. 10. The past perfect continuous tense is used to express: A) A completed action in the past. B) An action happening now. C) A future action. D) A continuing action that was completed before another past action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A continuing action that was completed before another past action. 11. What is the auxiliary verb to form the past perfect continuous? A) Has + been. B) Had + be. C) Had + been. D) Have + been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had + been. 12. Helen ..... (to wash) the dishes for fifteen minutes. A) Is washing. B) Has be washing. C) Have been washing. D) Has been washing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has been washing. 13. True or False:To fix the sentence 'He had watching TV all morning, ' you need to add the word 'been' after 'had'. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Sare ..... french for three months. A) Have been learning. B) Had been learning. C) Has been learner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been learning. 15. Which form of the verb is used in the present perfect continuous tense? A) Have/has + been + present participle. B) Had + past participle. C) Am/is/are + present participle. D) Have/has + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have/has + been + present participle. 16. We ..... the information on the company's website. A) Accessed. B) Allocated. C) Compatible. D) Deleting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accessed. 17. Fill in the blank to fix the grammar:My phone was dead because I ..... using it all day. A) Have been. B) Was been. C) Had been. D) Had using. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been. 18. Complete the sentence with the correctly spelled verb:My friends had been ..... a surprise party for me all week. A) Planeng. B) Planying. C) Planing. D) Planning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planning. 19. Which of the following is an example of a verb using the past perfect progressive? A) Will have baked. B) Had been baking. C) Had baked. D) Baked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been baking. 20. Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect continuous tense? A) I had been waiting for hours. B) I was waiting for hours. C) I wait for hours. D) I waited for hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I had been waiting for hours. 21. Identify the sentence that is NOT in the past perfect continuous tense. A) I had been working on the project all night. B) She had been feeling unwell for days. C) They were being noisy. D) We had been planning the trip for months. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were being noisy. 22. True or False:The sentence 'She had been cry all morning' is grammatically correct. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. She ..... (teach) chemistry before she became a journalist. A) Had been teached. B) Had teached. C) Had been taught. D) Had been teaching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been teaching. 24. The sentence 'She had been studying when her friend called' 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: A) True. 25. Complete the sentence: "It ..... (rain) and the pavement ..... (be) covered with puddles." Which option uses the correct tenses? A) Had rained, was. B) Rains, is. C) Was raining, is. D) Had been raining, was. E) Rained, was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been raining, was. 26. In the afternoon he ..... (do) his homework, so he had no time to study for the test. A) Was doing. B) Had been doing. C) Had done. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been doing. 27. Select the correct negative form in past perfect continuous: A) I hadn't worked. B) I hadn't been working. C) I not had been working. D) I hadn't working. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I hadn't been working. 28. He has been improving his communication skills for a while. A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect Continuous. 29. Complete the sentence to show the first action was ongoing:Before my mom called us for dinner, my sister and I ..... a fort in the living room. A) Built. B) Had been building. C) Were building. D) Had built. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been building. 30. By the time we arrived, the kids ..... for an hour. A) Played. B) Have been playing. C) Had been playing. D) Were playing. 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