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Q: Which sentence emphasizes how long something continued before another past event?

A) They will travel next week.

B) They traveled tomorrow.

C) They have traveled now.

D) They had been traveling for six hours before they stopped.

Q: Complete: 'How long _____ he _____ working there before he resigned?'

A) had / been

B) has / been

C) did / been

D) was / been

Q: What is the basic structure of Past Perfect Continuous?

A) have/has + been + verb-ing

B) had + been + verb-ing

C) will have + been + verb-ing

D) had + past participle

Q: Complete: "By Friday, we ___ on the project for a week."

A) have been working

B) had been working

C) will have been working

D) will be working

Q: Choose the correct form: "By 6 o'clock, she ___ for eight hours."

A) will have been working

B) has been working

C) had been working

D) is working

Q: Which word joins two words or groups of words?

A) Adjective

B) Conjunction

C) Adverb

D) Pronoun

Q: Which sentence is grammatically correct?

A) I have been waiting yesterday.

B) I had been wait for an hour.

C) I had been waiting for an hour.

D) I had waiting been for an hour.

Q: Complete: 'She _____ _____ crying before her mother came.'

A) will be

B) has been

C) have been

D) had been

Q: Which sentence correctly uses 'for' with Past Perfect Continuous?

A) He had been working for three hours before lunch.

B) He had been working for Monday before lunch.

C) He had been working for 2020 before lunch.

D) He had been working for yesterday before lunch.

Q: Choose the correct short answer to 'Had they been studying?'

A) Yes, they have.

B) Yes, they had.

C) Yes, they were.

D) Yes, they did.

Q: Complete: 'We _____ been living there for ten years before we moved.'

A) has

B) have

C) had

D) will

Q: Which sentence is NOT in the Past Perfect Continuous?

A) He had been running.

B) They had been waiting.

C) She had been reading.

D) I was reading when he arrived.

Q: Identify the conjunction: "I wanted to go, but it was raining."

A) wanted

B) raining

C) was

D) but

Q: Choose the correct conjunction: "Hurry up, ___ you will miss the bus."

A) and

B) so

C) unless

D) or

Q: Complete: "Ali is tired ___ he continues to work."

A) because

B) but

C) or

D) so

Q: Which conjunction shows a reason?

A) and

B) but

C) because

D) or

Q: Choose the correct form: 'The workers _____ been repairing the road before the rain started.'

A) had

B) have

C) has

D) will

Q: Which sentence explains a past result caused by a continuing earlier activity?

A) She is tired because she works.

B) She was tired because she had been working all day.

C) She will be tired tomorrow.

D) She works every day.

Q: Complete: 'Why _____ they _____ arguing before the teacher entered?'

A) did / been

B) have / been

C) had / been

D) were / been

Q: Which sentence correctly uses 'since' for a starting point in the past?

A) They had been waiting since yesterday ago.

B) They had been waiting since three hours.

C) They had been waiting since five years.

D) They had been waiting since noon before the bus came.