WorksheetsPast perfect continuous tense
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
After Nela ______ for 20 minutes, she began to feel tired.
jogging
had been jogging
has been jogging
has jogged
We had been playing video games for 5 hours.
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Thomas and I _ this movie for 2 hours when you came.
will play
have play
are playing
had been playing
They ___ for long before they lost radio contact.
had not been flew
has not been flying
had not been flying
has not been fly
I (a) the meal when Jon entered the room. (eat)
How ___ before you found the buried treasure?
had you been digging
had you been dig
has you been digging
has you been dig
The car … in the advertisement had already …
listed, stalled
listing, stalling
listed, stalling
listing, stalled
Little Thomas (cry) for hours before his mother finally comforted him.
Which is the correct past perfect continuous for the sentence above?
A. had cried
B. had been crying
C. cry
D. crying
what is the verb tense we are studying?
The verb tense is "present perfect".
The verb tense is "present perfect progressive".
The verb tense is "past perfect progressive".
When I saw him, he (a) near the traffic signal on the highway. (beg)
Report the sentence 'Gio has been cooking all day.' She said.
She has been cooking all night.
She said Gio has been baking all day.
She said Gio had been cooking all day.
She said Gio had been cleaning all day.
The children were wet because they (play) football in the rain.
had played
had been playing
Carlos _________ _________ ___________ all day, so he had a headache.
had worked
was working
has been working
had been working
Past perfect continuous tense is used for actions that started in the past and were still in progress when another action started or when something happened.
True
False
Which tense is this?
"At last the bus came. I had been waiting for haft an hour!"
Simple Past
Past Continous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continous
They _______________ for hours, so they ________ bored.
had waited, were
had been waiting, were
had waited, had been
had been waiting , had been being
Had the company been fair in giving bonuses, the employees would not have gone on strike."
A. the employees were quite dissatisfied
B. the employees are still going on strike
C. the employees were not given bonuses at all
D. the company has given the employees fair bonuses
E. the company has lost many employees
The children were wet because they ______ (play) football in the rain all day.
had been playing
had played
plays
play
They (look) ......... for the keys for three days, when they suddenly (appear) .......... under the bad.
Had been looking/appearing
Had been looking/appeared
Was look/appearing
Had look/appeared
It is a MUST for past perfect continuous to have:
had + past participle of the main verb
Have+ past participle of the main verb
have+ been + verb in "ing" form
had+ been + verb in "ing" form.
