Global MCQ Practice
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Present Perfect ContinuousSet 5

1Present tensesThe dog ..... (dig) all the morning but it ..... (not find) any bones yet.
2He ..... for that company for five years. (work) (Add +Ving)
3They ..... harder since the promotion was announced.
4What ..... since you graduated? (you + do)
5Aspect: perfect and continuous-Choose the correct form:They ..... round in circles for hours before they realized they were lost.
6I ..... here for an hour. Where is the train?
7I ..... (clean) the house since morning.
8We use ..... to talk about past actions or states which are still connected to the present. We focus on the activity itself, its duration.
9She ..... for 10 hours! You must wake her.
10Choose the right tense form.I ..... for this company for more than thirty years and I ..... to stay here until I retire.
11The first metro line in Ho Chi Minh City ..... under construction since 2012.A. is B. had been C. was D. has been
12Select the correct answer. Use the Present Perfect Continuous.We ..... for you since 10 o'clock.
13Recognize ongoing actions: 'He ..... (work) on this project for two months.'
14Your phone line is always busy.
15Mary ..... her bike for a long time.
16..... you ..... guitar much recently?
17Which tense is used to express an action that has been ongoing until now?
18They are exhausted because they ..... since 6:00 this morning.
19Hadi looks very tired, he ..... for hours.
20Peter started studying at six and it's ten o'clock now.$\rightarrow$It's ten o'clock and Peter ..... four hours.
21She has been studying in Talca since 2019.
22It ..... outside for hours and the streets are very slippery.
23Yandi is looking forward to his birthday because he ..... a new laptop.
24The children ..... videos for two hours.
25The baby ..... since 3 a.m.
26Identify the sentence in the present perfect continuous tense
27He ..... (teach) at the university since 2010.
28How long ..... you worked in this office?
29Identify the correct usage of present perfect continuous tense in the sentence:'He has been playing the guitar all evening.'
30We have been looking for a new apartment for three months.
31Since 1992, there ..... many innovations in phone technology.
32Tim and Alice ..... since 1991
33Since last week 5 of the 7 terrorists ..... (CATCH)
34By the time we got to the restaurant, they ..... for an hour.
35He ..... for the results since last Friday.
36Aslie has been cooking all day.
37She would have been ..... at Oxford by December last year.
38..... you been ..... bread all day long?
39I ..... the kitchen since morning. It's still not clean.
40Complete the sentence to show the cause of the current situation:The ground is all wet because it ..... all night.
41It's 11.00 a.m. and I ..... half an hour of work this morning!
42I ..... waiting for her reply since last week
43Select the sentence with the correct verb tense: A) She has been studying all day. B) She is studying all day.
44I'm tired. I ..... on my project all night. VsI ..... on my project all day yesterday.
45Rewrite the following sentences, using the suggestions: 3. We began eating when it started to rain.
46David has been / was at the beach for hours. I think he's having a great time there.
47You ..... to find the street for hours. Why don't you ask someone for directions?
48The formula for writing the present perfect continuous tense is:
49EXERCISE 8: Choose the right variant.13. I need a new job. I am doing / I have been doing the same job for too long.
50He has been exercising regularly lately.
51Which one is the present perfect continuous?
52Choose the best answer to complete each sentence. My father ..... for the car factory since 1995.
53Ana:I did not go anywhere. But I ..... (clean) the house all day, so maybe I didn't hear the phone ring.
54Exercise 4: 5. Linda (work) ..... here for six years.
55She has been training for the job.
56Because of the cold weather, lately, Dasha has been feeling tired.
57We ..... for many hours in the street. It's time to get home.
58My sister ..... for you since yesterday.
59He has been working here since 1955 Tense:
60Simon ..... (write) books all his life and he's not planning to retire any time soon.
61Find the correct ending for the following sentence.Bricks .....