This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Quiz 29 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. By the time we arrived, he had already finished ..... the gardening. A) DOING. B) DO. C) DONE. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DOING. 2. Action finished in the past and result was visible. A) Past Perfect. B) Past Continuous. C) Present Perfect. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past Perfect. 3. The kids ..... a lot of mess before their mother came back home from work. (make) A) Had made. B) Had been making. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had made. 4. My mother ..... really angry with me because I ..... all my exams. A) Was / had failed. B) Were / had failed. C) Had been / failed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was / had failed. 5. When Sally came home, I ..... for 3 hours. A) Had gardened. B) Had been gardening. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been gardening. 6. Jim and Sally ..... to see us but we were all too busy. A) Had hoped. B) Had hoped / had been hoping. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had hoped / had been hoping. 7. ING form of the verb (cut) A) Cutting. B) Cuting. C) Cutinng. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting. 8. They were wet because they ..... in the rain for over an hour. (walk) A) Had been walked. B) Had been walks. C) Had been walking. D) Has been walking. E) Has been walked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been walking. 9. His face was dirty because he had been ..... chocolate. A) Ate. B) Eating. C) Eat. D) Eats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating. 10. Describes an action that started in the past, continued for some duration, and concluded or was ongoing before another specific point or action in the past.The text above is the definition of ..... A) Perfect past continuous. B) Past perfect continues. C) Past perfact continuous. D) Past perfect continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Past perfect continuous. 11. Tom ..... never ..... a summer course in London. A) Had attended. B) Has attended. C) Had been attending. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had attended. 12. Has Anna been laying in her bed all day? 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. 13. Orla felt fit for the marathon because she ..... (train) a lot. A) Had trained. B) Had been training. C) Has been training. D) Have been training. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been training. 14. Are the following questions Past Perfect Continuous?-They had been running- A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 15. When I ..... through the streets of Madrid, I ..... about the magnificent time I ..... there as a student. (WALK, THINK, SPEND) A) Was walking / thought /had spent. B) Was walking / was thinking / spent. C) Walked / thought / spent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was walking / thought /had spent. 16. The negative form for the sentence "Adam had learnt French before he went to France" is ..... A) Adam had not learnt French before he went to France. B) Adam has not learnt French before he went to France. C) Adam learnt French before he went to France. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adam had not learnt French before he went to France. 17. I used to ..... up late. A) Stay. B) Staying. C) Stayed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stay. 18. ..... you ..... on this project before you joined our team? A) Have been working. B) Had done working. C) Had been working. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been working. 19. We had been driving for a few hours before we realised that we were lost. A) We use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that started in the past and were still in progress when another action occurred in the past. B) We use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that were in progress in the past and had an effect on a later action in the past. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that started in the past and were still in progress when another action occurred in the past. 20. The passengers found out that their flight A) Has cancelled. B) Have cancelled. C) Had cancelled. D) Had been cancelled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been cancelled. 21. The house ..... £ 150, 000 in 2003. (cost) A) Cost. B) Costed. C) Was costing. D) Costs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cost. 22. He couldn't go out because he ..... his leg. A) Had been breaking. B) Had broken. C) Broke. D) Broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had broken. 23. She bought the book on Saturday, and by Sunday evening she ..... it all. A) Had been reading. B) Had read. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had read. 24. He had ..... three novels by the time he was 25. A) Written. B) Been writing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Written. 25. They had been using an iPhone for 2 years. A) Past Perfect. B) Past Perfect Continuous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect Continuous. ← 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