This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 12 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She ..... out when I called her. A) Had just gone. B) Had been just going. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had just gone. 2. Complete the sentence:How long ..... for your friend before you decided to leave the park? A) You had been waiting. B) Had you been waiting. C) Were you waiting. D) Have you been waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had you been waiting. 3. My cat ..... been sleeping all day. A) Have. B) Has. C) Is. D) Been. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has. 4. How long ..... you ..... (watch) TV before you decided to go to bed? A) Has you been watching. B) Had you been watching. C) Had watching. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had you been watching. 5. Complete the sentence:He ..... on his project since last week when his teacher finally checked it. A) Had been working. B) Has been working. C) Was been working. D) Had worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been working. 6. What are the auxiliary verbs of the past perfect continuous tense? A) Has been. B) Had been. C) Was being. D) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been. 7. We ..... (go) out for three years when we got married. A) Had been going. B) Were going. C) Are going. D) Had been go. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been going. 8. We ..... working last night, so we were very sleepy. A) Had been. B) Was being. C) Have been. D) Were. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been. 9. Which sentence is incorrect in the past perfect continuous tense? A) I had been studying all night when the alarm rang. B) He had been playing guitar since he was a child. C) They had been wait for the bus for an hour. D) She had been cooking for two hours before the guests arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had been wait for the bus for an hour. 10. Identify the correctly written negative sentence. A) He had not been listen to the teacher. B) He had been not listening to the teacher. C) He had not been listening to the teacher. D) He not had been listening to the teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He had not been listening to the teacher. 11. Her eyes were red. It was obvious that she ..... (cry). A) Had cried. B) Have cried. C) Had been crying. D) Cried. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been crying. 12. When I first met Ann, she ..... (work) in Samsung for 15 years. A) Had been working. B) Have been working. C) Worked. D) Had worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been working. 13. The light ..... before we got out of the office. A) Had gone out. B) Had switch off. C) Had been going out. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had gone out. 14. Which sentence uses the past perfect continuous tense incorrectly, based on the type of verb? A) She had been knowing the secret for a week. B) They had been running for an hour. C) He had been building a treehouse all summer. D) I had been thinking about the problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had been knowing the secret for a week. 15. The Past Perfect Tense connects ..... A) Two present actions. B) A future and present action. C) Two past actions, where one happened before the other. D) A past action and a future plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two past actions, where one happened before the other. 16. Peter and Jane ..... at the park when they parents found them. A) Played. B) Had played. C) Had been playing. D) Were playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been playing. 17. (2) when he come to the library, his friend ..... (leave) him to canteen A) Had been left. B) Had left. C) Had leave. D) Had been leaving. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had left. 18. Which option correctly completes the sentence? By the time my dad got home, we ..... dinner for ten minutes. A) Were already eating. B) Have already been eating. C) Had already been eating. D) Did eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were already eating. 19. Which question is correctly written in the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) Had they be practicing their lines for the play?. B) Have they been practicing their lines for the play?. C) Had they been practicing their lines for the play?. D) Were they practicing their lines for the play?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had they been practicing their lines for the play?. 20. Which scenario is best described using the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) The moment the school bell rang. B) Why you are feeling tired right now. C) The reason your shoes were muddy yesterday was that you were playing in the park. D) A plan to do homework later tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The reason your shoes were muddy yesterday was that you were playing in the park. 21. Which sentence shows the correct 'recipe' for the past perfect continuous tense? A) Had + verb-ing. B) Had + been + verb-ing. C) Was + verb-ing. D) Has + been + verb-ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had + been + verb-ing. 22. Complete the sentence:By the time the pizza arrived, we ..... about what to watch for thirty minutes. A) Argued. B) Have been arguing. C) Were arguing. D) Had been arguing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been arguing. 23. In the sentence, 'By the time we arrived, they had been cleaning the house all morning, ' what does the tense show? A) An action that finished a long time ago. B) An action that was happening at the exact same time we arrived. C) An ongoing action that happened for a period of time before we arrived. D) An action that started when we arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An ongoing action that happened for a period of time before we arrived. 24. Which sentence best uses the Past Perfect Continuous to show the *duration* of the first action based on this timeline:[Action 1:Studying from 3-5 PM] $\rightarrow$ [Action 2:Mom arrived at 5 PM]. A) I was studying when my mom arrived. B) I had been studying for two hours when my mom arrived. C) I studied before my mom arrived. D) I will be studying when my mom arrives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I had been studying for two hours when my mom arrived. 25. Identify the sentence that correctly places the adverb 'always'. A) He had always been helping his mom with chores. B) He always had been helping his mom with chores. C) He had been always helping his mom with chores. D) He had been helping always his mom with chores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He had always been helping his mom with chores. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTenses QuizzesVerbs QuizzesPast Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 1Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 2Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 3Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 4Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 5Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 6Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 7Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books