Session 7
Challenge your English with this quiz on past perfect tenses: simple or continuous?
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Past perfect tenses: Simple or continuous?
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Past perfect tenses: simple or continuous quiz
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The past perfect simple is used to talk about an past action that happened before another past action. We form it with 'had + past participle'.Question 1 of 8
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The fans were angry because the band ______ the concert five minutes before it was due to start.
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would have cancelled
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cancelling
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had cancelled
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had been cancelling
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Is 'advice' countable or uncountable?Question 2 of 8
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By the time Chen finished his apprenticeship, he ______ in Bangkok for two years.
a
had been being
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had been
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was
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was being
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Did he enter the races once or many times before winning?Question 3 of 8
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I ______ the races for years before I finally won!
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had entered
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entered
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was entering
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had been entering
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Check the answers carefully - they contain mistakesQuestion 4 of 8
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She ______ of working in the Shanghai office when suddenly she was offered a transfer to Shanghai by her boss.
a
will have dreamed
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dream
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had been dreaming
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had dreams
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It sounds like you arrived late and the match was already in progressQuestion 5 of 8
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The players ______ for 20 minutes by the time we arrived at the tennis match.
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were played
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had been playing
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played
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have played
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Did they find him after explaining or before?Question 6 of 8
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At the press conference, the police explained they ______ the missing man on an island in the South Pacific.
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were finding
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find
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had been finding
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had found
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An action completed before a specific past timeQuestion 7 of 8
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By 1994 the band ______ the top of the charts with a number one hit.
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has reached
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had reached
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had been reaching
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has been reached
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It sounds like we need a repeated past action that happened before another past time.Question 8 of 8
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He ______ for three years before he finally got published.
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had written
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will have been writing
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had been writing
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writes
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The fans were angry because the band ______ the concert five minutes before it was due to start.
Incorrect
2
By the time Chen finished his apprenticeship, he ______ in Bangkok for two years.
Incorrect
3
I ______ the races for years before I finally won!
Incorrect
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She ______ of working in the Shanghai office when suddenly she was offered a transfer to Shanghai by her boss.
Incorrect
5
The players ______ for 20 minutes by the time we arrived at the tennis match.
Incorrect
6
At the press conference, the police explained they ______ the missing man on an island in the South Pacific.
Incorrect
7
By 1994 the band ______ the top of the charts with a number one hit.
Incorrect
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He ______ for three years before he finally got published.
Incorrect
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