This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. He ..... painting the front wall of the house a moment ago. A) Just finish. B) Finished. C) Has just finished. D) Just finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has just finished. 4. 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. 5. We lived in the house that my father ..... ..... A) Had built. B) Was built. C) Had building. D) Is building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had built. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. They hadn't been talking ..... June. A) Since. B) By. C) At. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Since. 10. Yesterday, my brother said he (stop) ..... smoking for three months. A) Had been stopping. B) Was stopping. C) Stopped. D) Stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been stopping. 11. Which sentence correctly uses the Past Perfect Continuous tense with a time expression? A) They had been studying English tomorrow. B) He has been sleeping since two hours. C) We had been waiting for you since morning. D) I had been going to the gym next week. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We had been waiting for you since morning. 12. 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. 13. Harold ..... her secret for a while. A) Had knew. B) Had know. C) Had known. D) Had knewn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had known. 14. 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. 15. I ..... (wait) for her for hours before she came (PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS) A) Had been waiting. B) Has been waiting. C) Had been waited. D) Had waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 16. Before last summer, I ..... in a foreign country. A) Had never lived. B) Never lived. C) Had never been living. D) Was never living. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had never lived. 17. 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. 18. He was tired because he ..... (not sleep) well the night before. A) Had not been sleep. B) Has not been sleeping. C) Had not sleeping. D) Had not been sleeping. E) Has not been sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had not been sleeping. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Perfect Continuous Quiz 1Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 2Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 3Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 4Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 5Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 6Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 7Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books