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8. Put the verb in brackets in the correct tense, Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous.

  1. I’m exhausted! I ____________ (work) all day, and I _______________ (not / finished) yet.

  2. I ___________ (visit) many countries over the past few years.

  3. Someone _________ (take) my books.

I __________ (look) for them for ages, but I __________ (not / find) them yet.

  1. I __________ (shop) all morning, but I _____________ (not / buy) anything.

  2. That’s one of the best books I ____________ ever ___________ (read).

  3. You’re filthy! What _________ you __________ (do)? I ________ (work) in the garden.

  4. The streets are all wet. It ___________ (rain).

  5. I ________ (listen) to you for the past half an hour, but I’m afraid I _________ (not / understand) a single word.

  6. What’s the matter? I ___________ (read) in my room for hours, and I’ve got a headache.

  7. I __________ (try) to lose weight for ages. I ___________ (lose) ten pounds so far.

  8. Why is your hair wet? I __________ (swim).

9. Make questions using the prompts.

  1. Paul is a singer in a band.

How long _________________________?

How many records __________________?

  1. Your friend Alan is learning to drive. What do you ask him?

How long _________________________?

____________________ bought a car yet?

  1. Jenny is a teacher.

How long _________________________?

How many schools __________________?

  1. You meet your friend Sally outside the cinema.

How long _________________________?

  1. Joey is getting married to Andrew next September.

How many ___________________ invited?

How long _____________ known Andrew?

  1. You meet an old friend you haven’t seen for ten years.

What ______________ doing all this time?

Where ________________________ been?

  1. You known that Peter has been to the States several times.

How many times ____________________?

  1. Ann and her family always go to France for their holidays.

How long __________________________?

  1. Ann’s mother is on holiday. What do you ask Ann?

Where _____________________________?

  1. You want to know if it is still raining. What do you ask?

Has it ___________________________ yet?

10. Translate into English.

  1. Скільки років ви знаєте один одного?

  2. Скільки років ви вже вивчаєте англійську мову?

  3. Вона проживає в Англії з 1995 року.

  4. Мені жарко, тому що я бігав.

  5. Він вже закінчив цю роботу і може іти додому.

  6. Ми працюємо над контрактом увесь ранок.

  7. Я живу в цьому будинку вже три роки.

  8. Скільки років вони одружені?

  9. Він працює в саду з ранку.

Past perfect continuous

1. Form

We form the past perfect continuous with had been + … ing

Affirmative Negative

I

you

he she it we you they

had been working

I

you

he she it we you they

had not been working

Question

had

I

you he she it we you

they

been working?

Contractions

’d = had hadn’t = had not

2. Use

a) When we are talking about the past, we sometimes want to refer back to an earlier past.

Dave had been driving for an hour when his car broke down.

We use the past perfect continuous (Dave had been driving for an hour) to talk about something which had been in progress up to the past time we are talking about (when his car broke down).

More examples:

I had been walking for about half an hour when it suddenly started to rain. Mr. Woods had been working for 50 years when he finally retired in 1965.

b) The past perfect continuous is the past form of the present perfect continuous.

Compare:

Present Perfect Continuous

I have been working hard all day, so I’m very tired now.

Past Perfect Continuous

I had been working hard all day, so I was very tired last night.

Exercises