This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read the sentence: "My brother had been playing video games for two hours when our dad got home." Is this sentence written correctly 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. 2. Why ..... they ..... the project before the deadline? A) Had-been completing. B) Had-completed. C) Have-complete. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been completing. 3. Which of these sentences is written in the past perfect continuous tense? A) She was playing soccer after school. B) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. C) She had played soccer last year. D) She has been playing soccer all day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She had been playing soccer when it started to rain. 4. Why ..... they ..... so much before they settled down? A) Had-been traveling. B) Had-been travel. C) Had-traveling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been traveling. 5. What is the Past Simple of the verb THINK? A) Thought. B) Thinked. C) Thinking. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thought. 6. He was really angry because he ..... (wait) for a month when the parcel arrived. A) Had waited. B) Had been waiting. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been waiting. 7. A: ..... B:Yes, I have. I have been saving money since last week. A) Have you saving money?. B) Have you been saving money?. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have you been saving money?. 8. ..... you ..... on that project for a long time before the deadline? A) Have-working. B) Had-been working. C) Had-been work. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been working. 9. Read this sentence:'The ground was all muddy because it had been raining all morning.' Which action is described using the past perfect continuous tense? A) The ground was all muddy. B) It had been raining. C) The ground being muddy. D) It raining all morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It had been raining. 10. Carvio had brought her favorite novel but she ..... (left) her glasses at home. A) Had left. B) Had been leaving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had left. 11. Suraya never had any chance to see the books because Watie ..... them. A) Sold. B) Sells. C) Had sellen. D) Had sold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had sold. 12. He had had lunch before he attended the meeting. A) Present Perfect Tense. B) Past Perfect Tense. C) Future Tense. D) Past Continuous Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past Perfect Tense. 13. What does Past Perfect talk about? A) Something happened before something else. B) Something happened in the past, related to now. C) Something that is happening now. D) Promise and Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something happened before something else. 14. The dog has been outside ..... a long time A) For. B) Since. C) Nearly. D) Almost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For. 15. They ..... several expensive cars since getting that job. A) Owned. B) Have owned. C) Were owning. D) Will own. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have owned. 16. We use Past Continuous for? A) Something that happened again and again. B) Something that happened once in the past. C) Something that happened several times in the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something that happened again and again. 17. To build the past perfect continuous tense, which group of words do you always need to use before the main verb? A) Had been. B) Was/were. C) Has been. D) Will have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been. 18. My friend didn't know the answers, because he ..... for the test. A) Wasn't studying. B) Hasn't studied. C) Hadn't studied. D) Didn't study. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hadn't studied. 19. Why ..... she ..... when I called her? A) Had-been crying. B) Have-crying. C) Had-cried. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been crying. 20. Why ..... you ..... so much before the deadline? A) Had-been stressing. B) Had-stress. C) Have-stressed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had-been stressing. 21. How many hours ..... you ..... before the exam started? A) Had-studying. B) Had-been studied. C) Had-been studying. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had-been studying. 22. Helen ..... (not feel) well for two days when I ..... (visit) her last Sunday. A) Did not feel, visited. B) Did not feel, had been visiting. C) Had not been feeling, visited. D) Doesn't feel, visits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had not been feeling, visited. 23. How long ..... you ..... for the presentation to start? A) Have-wait. B) Had-been waiting. C) Had-waiting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had-been waiting. 24. Have you been winning the games? A) No, I haven't. B) No, I hasn't. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, I haven't. 25. To make the Past Perfect Continuous tense, what three parts do you need to put together? A) Have + been + verb-ing. B) Had + verb-ed. C) Had + been + verb-ing. D) Was + verb-ing. 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