This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:In the sentence, 'By the time the pizza arrived, we had been waiting for an hour, ' the waiting happened *after* the pizza arrived. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. By the time the show started, they ..... (eat) dinner. A) Had eaten. B) Had been eating. C) Ate. D) Were eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had eaten. 3. Your friend says, 'I was studying for three hours.' How would you report this to someone else, emphasizing the duration before you spoke to her? A) She said she was studying for three hours. B) She said she has been studying for three hours. C) She said she had been studying for three hours. D) She said she studied for three hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She said she had been studying for three hours. 4. Imagine you're telling a story. Your character, Sarah, finally finished a huge painting. Which sentence best describes her long effort *before* she finished? A) Sarah was working on it when she finished. B) Sarah worked on it and then she was finished. C) Sarah had been working on that single painting for a month before she finally put her brush down. D) Sarah has been working on that painting for a month. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah had been working on that single painting for a month before she finally put her brush down. 5. My mother ..... all day, so she was tired. A) Cleans. B) Was cleaning. C) Had been cleaning. D) Cleaned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been cleaning. 6. Which sentence best contrasts a longer, earlier action with a shorter, later one? A) They had been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. B) They were hiking for miles when they were seeing the bear. C) They had hiked for miles, then they saw the bear. D) They have been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They had been hiking for miles before they saw the bear. 7. Which of these is not past perfect continuous tense? A) I had been helping him to do the task before I started the program. B) Richard had been practicing to sing the song since morning. C) We had been enjoying the program thoroughly for three hours. D) They had been to London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They had been to London. 8. Choose the sentence with the same meaning:"Before I left the office, I had been working on the report all day." A) After I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. B) When I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. C) I had been working on the report all day after I left the office, . D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When I left the office, I had been working on the report all day. 9. True or False:The following sentence is grammatically correct. 'She was tired because she had been studied for six hours.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Convert the following to past perfect continuous:'She studies for hours.' A) She was studying for hours. B) She had been studying for hours. C) She had studied for hours. D) She has studied for hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She had been studying for hours. 11. True or False:The sentence 'I knew the answer because I had been paying attention' uses the past perfect continuous to show a completed action. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. We ..... (prepare) him for this race for months before he decided to quit. A) Had preparing. B) Had prepared. C) Had been prepared. D) Had been preparing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had been preparing. 13. Complete the sentence with the correct negative form:We missed the start of the movie because we ..... attention to the time. A) Hadn't been paying. B) Weren't be paying. C) Hadn't paying. D) Not had been paying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't been paying. 14. True or False:The sentence 'They hadn't been waiting long' is a correct negative sentence in the past perfect continuous tense. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Which question is formed correctly? A) You had been sleeping well?. B) Been you sleeping well?. C) Had you been sleeping well before the alarm rang?. D) Did you been sleeping well?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had you been sleeping well before the alarm rang?. 16. The roads were blocked in the morning. It ..... (snow) all night. A) Had been snowing. B) Had snowed. C) Had snow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been snowing. 17. Had Muhammad ..... driving? A) Been. B) Be. C) Have. D) Has. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Been. 18. She ..... (not/sit) at home for long before she went out. A) Has not been sat. B) Had not been sitting. C) Didn't sit. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had not been sitting. 19. What is the formation of past perfect tense? A) Had + past participle. B) Was + past participle. C) Have + past participle. D) Has + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had + past participle. 20. Which sentence is a correct example of the Past Perfect Continuous tense? A) I had been studying for the test. B) I was studying for the test. C) I have been studying for the test. D) I had studied for the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I had been studying for the test. 21. The question form of Past Perfect Tense is ..... A) Did + S + V1 + O/C?. B) Had + S + V3 + O/C?. C) Have + S + V3 + O/C?. D) Was + S + V-ing + O/C?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had + S + V3 + O/C?. 22. My family had ..... giraffes when my brother interested seeing tiger. A) Saw. B) Had seen. C) Have been watching. D) Been seeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Been seeing. 23. What is the main purpose of the past perfect continuous tense? A) To describe an action that is happening right now. B) To describe a single, completed action in the past. C) To describe an action that happened for a period of time before another past event. D) To describe a future plan that was made in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To describe an action that happened for a period of time before another past event. 24. What is the result of the boss talking to clients on Skype for hours? A) She wanted a break. B) She wanted to talk more. C) She wanted to eat lunch. D) She wanted to go home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She wanted a break. 25. Which word best completes the sentence? "She had never seen snow ..... she moved to Canada." A) Before. B) After. C) Since. D) Until. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before. ← 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