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Past Perfect ContinuousSet 16

1It started raining in the past up until I got in the car.

2They ..... here for two hours before we arrived.

3Give an example of using past perfect continuous tense in a sentence.

4It ..... for two days before it stopped.

5He ..... for two hours before he stopped.

6Complete the sentence:I ..... for my keys for ten minutes when I finally found them in my pocket.

7We had been playing video games for 5 hours.

8The children were happy because they ..... in the park for hours.

9'Susan looked really sunburnt.' 'She ..... in the sun for too long.'

10The sentence: I had been working in this room, in which tense is?

11He was really angry because he ..... (wait) for a month when the parcel arrived.

12Which of these are the three main parts needed to form the past perfect continuous tense?

13This tense is used to talk about the duration of an activity that continued up to a specified point in time in the past. It is also used to talk about the result of a past activity that stopped before a point in time in the past. The result of the activity is evident at this past point in time.

14They ..... for two hours before the train finally arrived.

15I was really relieved when I found the documents. I ..... (look for) them whole morning.

16Convert to past perfect continuous: I had been waiting for an hour.

17What does the sentence "He had been waiting for two hours before she arrived" emphasize?

18Yesterday morning I got up and looked out of the window. The sun was shinning but the ground was very wet. It .....

19My dad ..... the living room for two hours before my brother ..... to help him.

20Sam failed his math test. It was obvious that he ..... attention to the lessons in the weeks before.

21Choose the right variant. He ..... the car for many hours before he came to the crossroads.

22I ..... for an hour when an ambulance arrived at my neighbour's.

23They had been playing soccer for two hours before it started to rain. What tense is this?

24They had been playing in the park for three hours before I called them.Identify the tense

25Agus had been living in Yogyakarta

26Tom ..... TV when his mother came home.

27We ..... in the garden for a long time when found the water hole.

28My old phone was broken. It ..... already.

29Describes a past, ongoing action that was completed before another past action. Is formed by adding had been before an-ing verb.

30They were out of breath. They ..... for a long time.

31I ..... for a bus for twenty minutes when I saw you.

32Which tense is this?"At last the bus came. I HAD BEEN WAITING for 2 hours"

33Provide an example of a sentence in the past perfect progressive.

34Structure:"Had been" + present participle of the main verb.

35What tense is the sentence in:I had been waiting so long for you.

36Transform to past perfect continuous: 'They had been waiting for an hour.'

37Kelly was devastated that the dollhouse she ..... for the last three weeks was destroyed.

38Emma ..... her favorite program for two hours before her mother turned off the TV.

39A press conference had been being held with great joy at The Shard London to mark the release of director Castille Landon's latest film by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin and the rest of the cast

40Which words correctly start this question in the Past Perfect Continuous tense: ..... practicing for very long before the coach arrived?

41He wanted to know if she ..... when the new environmental regulations were discussed.

42The thief ..... by the time Mr. and Mrs. Smith returned from holiday.

43Because the children ..... forward to seeing Harry Potter for so long, I took them even though it was really inconvenient for me.

44They ..... in Bali for two months when the accident happened.

45I ..... to contact him for all week before he replied.

46When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table and talking. Their mouths were empty, but their stomachs were full. (They/eat).

47The case ..... for months before the settlement.

48By the time we arrived, they ..... (clean) the house for hours.

49They ..... for an hour before the doctor came.

50Circle the correct answer. They ..... for an hour before they went home.

51Mike ..... to sit down because he ..... all day at work.a. had been wanting / was standing b. had wanted / stoodc. wanted / had been standing d. was wanting / had stood

52My friends were very tired at the end of our long trip. We ..... for 6 hours.

53We ..... there for 20 minutes when you called me.

54Which tense is used to emphasize a past action that continues up to another past point?

55My girlfriend arrived after I ..... for her about half an hour.

56I ..... all day, so I didn't want to go out. (work-past perfect progressive)

57Which of the following is an example of an action or habit taking place over a period of time in the past prior to some other past event or time?

58They had been studying for the exam since last month.

59Past simple, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous.Luisa ..... (write) short stories since she ..... (be) a child, and then her favourite magazine ..... (offer) to publish one of them.

60The results of the experiment, which ..... by the research team for weeks, ..... at the conference yesterday.

61Complete the sentence with the correct helping verb: The team ..... been practicing for hours before the game started.