This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 19 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. BY THE TIME we ..... the job, he had been working alone for years A) Started. B) Had been starting. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Started. 2. Is Past Perfect Continuous exactly the same as Present Perfect Continuous? A) No. B) Yes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 3. Had they been running A) Past Perfect Continuous. B) Present Perfect. C) Simple Present. D) Past Participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect Continuous. 4. The dog hasn't been moving at all for more than three hours. 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. 5. I ..... (cope) with my problem for weeks before I found a solution. A) Had coping. B) Had been coping. C) Had copied. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been coping. 6. Complete the following with the best choice.When I ..... , it was clear that she didn't work. A) Arrived. B) Was arriving. C) Had been arriving. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arrived. 7. The line is busy. Mandy ..... on the phone for hours. A) Talked. B) Has talked. C) Has been talking. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has been talking. 8. We ..... to China because our flight ..... on short notice. (NOT GO, CANCEL) A) Didn't go / have cancelled. B) Went / cancelled. C) Didn't go / had been cancelled. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Didn't go / had been cancelled. 9. We were starving because we ..... (not / eat). A) HADN'T EATEN. B) HADN'T BEEN EATING. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HADN'T EATEN. 10. Maria and Liza ..... for their English test since ten o'clock this morning. A) Had studied. B) Studied. C) Study. D) Had been studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been studying. 11. She ..... for two hours when she woke up to an explosion. A) Had slept. B) Has slept. C) Had been sleeping. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been sleeping. 12. By the time she called me, I ..... my homework. A) Had already finished. B) Was finishing. C) Had been finishing. D) Have finished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had already finished. 13. Yesterday, my brother said he (stop) ..... smoking for 2 months A) Had been stopping. B) Will have been stopping. C) Has been stopping. D) Are stoping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been stopping. 14. Jim ..... to the zoo yesterday.Jim isn't here now. He ..... to the zoo. A) Went / has gone. B) Went / has been going. C) Has gone / went. D) Went / have been going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Went / has been going. 15. Complete the next sentence using past perfect or past perfect continuous:Albertto (propose) Helena before they went to the party. A) Had been proposing. B) Had proposed. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had proposed. 16. The company ..... in research and development, which hurt its competitiveness. A) Hadn't been investing. B) Haven't been investing. C) Hadn't done investing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't been investing. 17. When I got home Mark had just turned the TV. He ..... a film. A) Was watching. B) Had been watching. C) Watched. D) Had watched. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been watching. 18. The sales manager ..... the advantages of his product for about half an hour before I agreed to buy some samples. (describe) A) Had describe. B) Had been describing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been describing. 19. After he ..... the news, they burst into laughter. A) Had heard. B) Had been hearing. C) Had hear. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had heard. 20. By the time Doris ..... to the party, everyone ..... home. A) Had gone / went. B) Got / had gone. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Got / had gone. 21. By the time Julia was twenty, she ..... more than fifty rare books. A) Had bought. B) Had been buying. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had bought. 22. Is this correct?The centre of the town had been closed to general traffic because a new hospital had been built on the site of a disused factory. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 23. We ..... (sleep) for 12 hours when he woke us up A) Were sleeping. B) Have been sleeping. C) Had been sleeping. D) Slept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been sleeping. 24. They hadn't been reading their books. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 25. I was sure that I ..... the place before. A) Saw. B) Had seen. C) Had been seeing. D) Seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had seen. ← 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