Past Perfect Continuous Challenge

Identify the past perfect continuous tense in the following sentence: 'She had been studying for three hours before the exam.'

• has been studying

• was studying

• will be studying

• had been studying

Form the past perfect continuous tense of the verb 'play'.

• was playing

• had played

• had been playing

• have been playing

Use the past perfect continuous tense in a sentence to describe a situation that happened before another past event.

• She was studying when her friends arrived.

• She has been studying for hours before her friends arrived.

• She will be studying for hours before her friends arrived.

• She had been studying for hours before her friends arrived.

Differentiate between past perfect continuous and past perfect in the sentence: 'He had been working for 10 years before he retired.'

• The sentence uses simple past tense to show the action of working before retiring.

• The sentence uses present perfect continuous tense to show the ongoing action of working.

• The sentence uses past perfect continuous tense (had been working) to show that the action of working was ongoing before the action of retiring.

• The sentence uses future perfect tense to show the action of working before retiring.

Apply the past perfect continuous tense in a real-life scenario where someone has been doing an activity for a long time.

• They had been eating for weeks before the restaurant closed.

• She had been studying for hours before the exam.

• He had been sleeping for days before the party.

• I had been running for months before I got tired.

Conjugate the verb 'eat' in the past perfect continuous tense for the pronoun 'I'.

• have been eating

• had ate

• was eating

• had been eating

Identify the past perfect continuous tense in the following sentence: 'They had been waiting for the bus when it finally arrived.'

• have been waiting

• was waiting

• will be waiting

• had been waiting

Form the past perfect continuous tense of the verb 'write'.

• had been writing

• had been wrote

• had wrote

• was writing

Use the past perfect continuous tense in a sentence to describe an ongoing action that was completed in the past.

• She had been studying for hours before the exam.

• She was studying for hours before the exam.

• She has been studying for hours before the exam.

• She will be studying for hours before the exam.

Differentiate between past perfect continuous and past perfect in the sentence: 'She had been cooking dinner when the guests arrived.'

• The sentence 'She had been cooking dinner when the guests arrived' uses past perfect continuous tense to show that the action of cooking dinner was ongoing before the guests arrived.

• The sentence uses present perfect continuous tense to show an action that started in the past and continued up to the present moment.

• The sentence uses future perfect tense to show an action that will be completed before a specific time in the future.

• The sentence uses simple past tense to show an action that occurred and was completed before another action in the past.