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B2 · Upper Intermediate

Past Perfect Continuous — practice exercises

Interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, and error-correction exercises with instant feedback.

5 exercises

  1. Past Perfect Continuous - Achieving a Goal

    Past Perfect Continuous - Achieving a Goal

    Fill in the blank

    This is a fill-in-the-blank exercise. Click on each blank and choose the correct answer from the dropdown. Use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that were happening over a period of time before another past event, and the Past Perfect for completed actions. Some sentences may have more than one blank, so make sure you complete all of them.

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  2. Past Perfect Continuous - Exploring a New Place

    Past Perfect Continuous - Exploring a New Place

    Fill in the blank

    This is a fill-in-the-blank exercise. Click on each blank and choose the correct answer from the dropdown. Use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that were happening over a period of time before another past event, and the Past Perfect for completed actions. Some sentences may have more than one blank, so make sure you complete all of them.

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  3. Build Duration, Negatives, and Questions

    Build Duration, Negatives, and Questions

    Build the sentence

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each sentence. One word does not belong.

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  4. Build Processes and Completed Results

    Build Processes and Completed Results

    Build the sentence

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each sentence. One word does not belong.

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  5. Past Perfect Continuous - Find and Fix

    Past Perfect Continuous - Find and Fix

    Find the mistake

    One word in each sentence is wrong. Tap it, then choose the correction.

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Put Past Perfect Continuous into practice with 5 interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, and error-correction exercises at B2 (Upper Intermediate) level. Every question is checked instantly, so you can catch mistakes, see the correct answer in context, and build confidence using Past Perfect Continuous in real English sentences.

Work through the exercises above in order or jump straight to the one you want. You can retry any exercise as many times as you like, and your score updates as you go. When you want to review the rules first, head back to the Past Perfect Continuous lesson.

  • Fill-in-the-blank questions with multiple-choice answers
  • Sentence-building questions: tap the words into the correct order
  • Error-correction questions: spot the wrong word, then choose the fix
  • Instant feedback and scoring on every attempt
  • Unlimited retries to reinforce Past Perfect Continuous
  • Suitable for B2-level English learners