This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Tenses > Past > Past Perfect Continuous Tense – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Past Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My dad ..... smoking in the garage. A) Has. B) Had. C) Had been. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been. 2. Jame was tired because he ..... all day. A) Had work. B) Worked. C) Had been working. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been working. 3. What are the three parts that make up the past perfect continuous tense? A) Has + been + verb-ing. B) Had + been + verb-ing. C) Was + been + verb-ing. D) Had + verb-ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had + been + verb-ing. 4. Complete the sentence:She didn't get the joke because she ..... to the conversation. A) Hadn't been listening. B) Wasn't listen. C) Hadn't listened. D) Didn't been listening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hadn't been listening. 5. Which sentence correctly shows the structure of the past perfect continuous tense? A) He was playing soccer. B) He has been playing soccer. C) He had been playing soccer. D) He had played soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He had been playing soccer. 6. The kids ..... up early this morning. A) Wake. B) Woke. C) Wakes. D) Waking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Woke. 7. Which places ..... they ..... before they arrived here? A) Has ; visited. B) Have ; visiting. C) Had ; visit. D) Had ; been visiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had ; been visiting. 8. What is the main idea the past perfect continuous tense expresses in this sentence:'The ground was wet because it had been raining'? A) The rain and the wet ground happened at the same time. B) The rain started after the ground was already wet. C) The rain was an ongoing action that caused a result in the past. D) The rain was a single, completed event in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rain was an ongoing action that caused a result in the past. 9. The young man ..... since he was a child. A) Has be surfed. B) Had been surfing. C) Had been surf. D) Have been surfing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been surfing. 10. Select the correct question form for the past perfect continuous tense. A) You had been waiting long?. B) Been you waiting long?. C) Had you been waiting long?. D) Did you been waiting long?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had you been waiting long?. 11. I ..... him, so I did not miss him. A) Have been seen. B) Has been seen. C) Had been seeing. D) Has been seeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been seeing. 12. ..... ? ..... anything before you went to the theater? A) Had you eaten. B) Had you eat. C) Has you eaten. D) You have eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had you eaten. 13. Identify if the following sentence has a grammatical error:She was exhausted because she had been study all night for the test. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Complete the sentence to show why Sam missed the call:He couldn't hear the phone because he ..... to loud music with his headphones on. A) Listened. B) Had been listening. C) Hadn't been listening. D) Was listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been listening. 15. By the time we got there, they ..... (leave). A) Had left. B) Had been leaving. C) Left. D) Had been left. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had left. 16. Choose the correct question form: ..... for a long time when the bus finally arrived? A) Have you been waiting. B) Had you been waiting. C) Did you wait. D) Were you waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have you been waiting. 17. Raj was sick because he had ( ..... ) properly for a few days. A) Had not been sleeping. B) Not been sleeping. C) Not slept. D) Slept. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not been sleeping. 18. Read the context:'The ground was wet when I left for school.' Which sentence best explains *why* it was wet, focusing on the duration of the action? A) It was raining. B) It had been raining. C) It rained. D) It had rained. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It had been raining. 19. Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect continuous to emphasize the *long duration* of an activity, rather than just its completion? A) She had written the report before the meeting. B) She wrote the report. C) She had been writing the report for three days when her computer crashed. D) She was writing the report when her computer crashed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She had been writing the report for three days when her computer crashed. 20. Which sentence correctly shows the basic structure for the past perfect continuous tense? A) She had been listening to music. B) She has been listening to music. C) She was been listening to music. D) She had listening to music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had been listening to music. 21. Complete the sentence:I was tired yesterday because I ..... for my science test all night. A) Had been studying. B) Was study. C) Have been studying. D) Had studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been studying. 22. It is a MUST for past perfect continuous to have: A) Had + past participle of the main verb. B) Have+ past participle of the main verb. C) Have+ been + verb in "ing" form. D) Had+ been + verb in "ing" form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had+ been + verb in "ing" form. 23. She ..... (wait) for her friend when I saw her. A) Had been waiting. B) Had waited. C) Waited. D) Was waiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been waiting. 24. You and your friends walk into the jungle. On the way, there is a separate way. One of your friends would like to go left but another one wants to go right. Both of them ask you decide on this; by the way, you don't want to make the decision. At that time, you want Kathy to decide. How do you say in English to ask Kathy to make a decision. A) Give me a hard time. B) Make up your mind. C) Chicken. D) Throw in the towel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make up your mind. 25. What is the formation of past perfect continuous tense? A) Was + present participle. B) Had been + present participle. C) Had + past participle. D) Had been + past participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had been + present participle. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books