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Grammar Exercise

Past Perfect Continuous

Use the past perfect continuous to look back from a past reference point at an earlier activity, duration, or explanatory process.

Interactive exercise

Past Perfect Continuous

Answer 6 questions about this grammar point.

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  1. 1.

    Which statement best explains Past Perfect Continuous?

  2. 2.

    Which sentence correctly demonstrates the main point in Past Perfect Continuous?

  3. 3.

    Which revision best addresses this example in the lesson context: “They had been waited for an hour.”

  4. 4.

    Which option is accurate in the context taught in this lesson?

  5. 5.

    Which revision best addresses this example in the lesson context: “I had been knowing her for years.”

  6. 6.

    Which revision best addresses the final example from this lesson?