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past perfect simple vs past perfect continuous

Authored by Azian Rozana

English

5th - 10th Grade

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past perfect simple vs past perfect continuous
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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We use Past Perfect for an action which happened before another past action or before a stated time in the past.

Yes
No

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To put emphasis on duration of an action and finished in the past before another past action, usually with since or for.

Past Pefect

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shamsul was tired because he (work) _________ all day

had been working

worked

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Emphasize on the duration of an activity in the past

past perfect continuous

past perfect simple

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following sentences are in the PAST PERFECT SIMPLE?

I had been working at the company for five years when I got the promotion.

Harold had known about it for two weeks.

Martha had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg.

I didn't say anything until she had finished talking.

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following sentences are in the PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS?

Had the concert already started when you arrived?

She didn't see Peter because he had gone to the supermarket.

I told her that I had been waiting for 3 hours but she didn't say anything.

Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Everybody noticed that you __________a mistake.

had made

had been making

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