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Past Perfect ContinuousSet 17

1True or False:To make the past perfect continuous tense, you always need the words 'had' and 'been' plus a main verb ending in '-ing'.

2Complete the sentence:"By the time you arrived, we ..... (wait) for hours."

3Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past perfect Simple or Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.1. The survivors ..... (finally / reach) a village after days of walking.

4E) Elon Musk ..... (work) at PayPal before starting his company.

5The band realised they ..... music for ten years now.

6True or False:In the sentence, 'By the time the pizza arrived, we had been waiting for an hour, ' the waiting happened *after* the pizza arrived.

7"she had been studying for a long time before the lights went out?"Is the sentence above correct?

8Martha ..... three miles a day before she broke her leg.

9We form the ( ..... ) with had + been + verb(-ing)

10The doctor asked me how long ..... (have) the symptoms before I came to check it.

11He knew that she ..... as her eyes were red.

12It indicates an action in the past that took place before another time or event in the past and continued during the second event/time point in the past. What tense is this?

13If I ..... soundly last night, I could have heard someone break into my house.

14UNIT 10 STANDARD GRAMMAR4) CHOOSE the correct option5. I ..... for this all my life.

15Jill went to the doctor's yesterday since she .....

16The street-seller, who ..... down all the time, lifted his head. "Was her face anything like mine?" The street-seller ..... face either.

17..... you ..... long before the taxi arrived?

18The children were tired because they ..... football for two hours.

19True or False:The sentence 'They had been playing soccer for two hours before it started to rain' is a correct example of the past perfect continuous tense.

20Convert the following to past perfect continuous:'She studies for hours.'

21Mr Lewis was really angry because he ..... at the hospital for over 2 hours

22He ..... at a car manufacturing company before he went to Japan.

23[A65] ..... on my car for three days before I could start it.

24We ..... dinner for half an hour when my father came home.

25Describes an action that started in the past, continued for some duration, and concluded or was ongoing before another specific point or action in the past.The text above is the definition of .....

26He ..... the grass for an hour when suddenly the lawn-mower broke down.

27Grace ..... French for three years before she began learning English.(Hint: Past event which took place over a specific period and was complete)

28Paul and Molly ..... on the phone for an hour when the line broke.

29Change the sentence 'They were playing football' to past perfect continuous.

30We'd been complaining about the problem for days.

31I told John not to drive, because he ..... all night.

32He said he ..... working on the project the whole day.

33Mandy was exhausted by the time she went on holiday because she ..... over 55 hours a week.

34Multiple Choice: Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect continuous tense?

35"I was angry. I ..... all year and I sitll didn't have enough money"

36The dean's committee had been examining our undergraduate program.

37Choose the correct: They ..... (had been playing / had played) football for two hours before it rained.

38Those drivers ..... for three hours when a heavy storm suddenly ..... a. were driving / broke b. drove / was breakingc. had driven / was breaking d. had been driving / broke

39Maria and Liza ..... for their English test since ten o'clock this morning.

40Which sentence shows the correct 'recipe' for the past perfect continuous tense?

41Henry was out of breath because he ..... to catch the train.

42They ..... (stand) in the queue for an hour when the manager ..... (inform) them that there were no more tickets available

43Keri was angry. She ..... for Sarah for two hours.

44They had been walking in the dessert for days, so they were exhausted.

45..... he ..... his money for months before he flew to Australia?

46He ..... the plan for a meeting. (Past Perfect Cont.)

47David was fed up. He ..... for the bus for an hour.

48Father ..... the dishes when the fire broke out.

49The dress Wanda used to wear looked as though

50Choose a sentence using past perfect continuous tense.

51What is a necessary component of the past perfect continuous tense?

52We had been walking for hours.

53How long ..... you ..... in Moscow before you moved to St. Petersburg?

54How long ..... (you/ learn) Spanish before you went to Spain?

55Emphasizes the duration of an action before another past event or time.

56I ..... for 30 minutes when the bus arrived.

57Which sentence correctly shows a negative idea in the past perfect continuous tense?

58The woman who "had been subject to bleeding" would have been ceremonially unclean in the eyes of the Jewish leaders for all of the years that she suffered from this condition.

59James ..... medicine for years when he realized he didn't wan to be a doctor.

60Which sentence best fits this situation: "You arrived at 8 PM. The rain started at 6 PM and stopped at 8 PM."

61I ..... English for 2 years before I moved to Australia.