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Past Perfect ContinuousSet 19

1Fill in the blank: "The letter ..... by the time I arrived."
2Choose the sentence that shows the correct time markers used with past perfect continuous:
3When I saw him, he ..... (paint) the fence for two hours.
4Complete the sentence: He ..... (to work) here for 10 years before he quit.
5What had Natalya been doing when Lomov called for her?
6Why was the baby's face so dirty?
7Is this sentence correct for past perfect continuous tense? I had been dancing all night.
8It is used for an action that was being performed or occurring in the past before another action already taken.
9Sarah was exhausted. She ..... the dishes for more than three hours.
10Which sentence shows the correct way to make the past perfect continuous tense negative?
11The construction workers ..... the bridge for six months before it was completed.
12We ..... for ages before we finally managed to pay for our clothes.
13We were tired! We ..... for twenty minutes.
14He had been waiting for hours before she arrived. (True/False)
15I had been running.
16On the eighth day Eric was seen by a helicopter that ..... for him. He was completely exhausted but alive.
17Complete the sentence:He was out of breath because he ..... up the stairs.
18The students ..... (wait) for the teacher for 15 minutes when she ..... (arrive) to class.
19The team ..... for three months already when the season started.
20Your friend says, 'I was so tired when I got home from the skatepark.' What is the best question to ask using the past perfect continuous to find out the duration?
21Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.12. They looked tired because they ..... (hike) all day.
22Select the option that has the mistake from the following statement: "Luis had being dating Karen for about 5 years before he asked her to marry him."
23Complete the sentence:My eyes were sore because I ..... video games for three hours.
24Which sentence best explains *why* the sidewalk was slippery, using the past perfect continuous?
25After she ..... (finish) her work, she ..... (decide) to go for a walk.
26Before the Smiths ..... (buy) their new house, they ..... (look) for a suitable one for a year.
27Little Thomas (cry) for hours before his mother finally comforted him.Which is the correct past perfect continuous for the sentence above?
28I ..... (manage) to pass the test because I ..... (study) hard for a whole week.
29How long ..... (you/ learn) English before you took TOEFL?
30Before he called, she ..... her homework for two hours.
31He ..... in the garden all morning and was very tired.
32SUBJECT + HAD + BEEN + VERB(ING)/GERUND + TIME EXPRESSION
33She ..... (live) in that house for 10 years before she moved.
34Past simple, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous.By the time our meal arrived we ..... (wait) for an hour and a half.
35They ..... for hours, so they ..... bored.
36I (have) ..... lunch for 20 minutes by the time the others came into the restaurant
37We ..... working last night, so we were very sleepy.
38By the time he found his girlfriend, he ..... for her in the mall for an hour
39Mrs Green said that the cat ..... birds.
40Which tense is used to describe a past action that continued until another action occurred?
41By the time the patch was released, players ..... about the bugs for weeks.
42Which sentence is not past perfect continuous tense?
43Michael and Ava ..... for a few minutes before the rest of the group arrived.
44Linda ..... for three hours before we met.
45She ..... (not play) tennis when I called her yesterday.
46Select past continuous or past perfect continuous for the sentence below."At the end of our journey we were extremely tired. We ..... (travel) for more than 24 hours."
47They had been playing cricket since 1982.
48My parents ..... for me ALL NIGHT when I got home
49Select past continuous or past perfect continuous for the sentence below."Sue was out of breath and sitting on the ground. She ..... (run)."
50Complete the sentence:I was tired yesterday because I ..... for my science test all night.
51By the time I arrived at the office, Bill ..... for three hours.
52Carry had been running a ten-kilometer for a young age.
53Ratu ..... in Bandung for trn years before she moved to Boston.
54They ..... abroad for many years before they returned home last week.
55What is the main job of the past perfect continuous tense when you're telling a story?
56I ..... working on the project for two hours when she called.
57Identify the tense of the verb in the following sentence: "She had been studying for hours before the exam started."
58Why do we use the past perfect continuous tense?
59They ..... living in that house for five years before they moved.
60Your sister did not like fried rice. Had your sister been cooking fried rice?
61Fill in the blank to fix the grammar:My phone was dead because I ..... using it all day.