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Past Perfect Continuous Exercise 5

The document contains a grammar exercise with examples using the past perfect continuous tense in English. The exercise provides incomplete dialogues and asks the student to fill in the blanks with the positive or negative form of the past perfect continuous tense of the verbs in parentheses. There are examples of using "have/has been" and auxiliary verbs like "work", "lie", "listen", "cough", "learn", "speak", and "look" in the past perfect continuous tense to complete the sentences.

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Past Perfect Continuous Exercise 5

The document contains a grammar exercise with examples using the past perfect continuous tense in English. The exercise provides incomplete dialogues and asks the student to fill in the blanks with the positive or negative form of the past perfect continuous tense of the verbs in parentheses. There are examples of using "have/has been" and auxiliary verbs like "work", "lie", "listen", "cough", "learn", "speak", and "look" in the past perfect continuous tense to complete the sentences.

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Past perfect continuous

Exercise 5. Complete the dialogues with positive and negative forms. _________

A Sam, how long ................................................... the laptop before it started working? (you | repair)

B The laptop? It took me five hours to repair it.

A I was so tired at the end of the hike!

B But ....................................................................... so much. (we | not walk)

A Why was your shirt full of stains?

B ............................................................... my car. (I | clean)

A You looked so exhausted.

B Really? But .............................................................. so hard. (I | not work)

A Why did Sarah get sunburnt?

B Because .......................................................... on the beach all day. (she | lie)

A Mr. Clark, why were you so annoyed?

B Because ......................................................... to my arguments at all. (they | not listen)

A .............................................................. for a long time when you saw the doctor? (you | cough)

B Not really. For two or three days.

A Miss Jones, how long ............................................................... French when you moved to France?
(you | learn)

B To tell the truth I'd never learned French before that.

A Hi, Sam. Did you talk to Susan at last?

B Yes, I did. But .......................................................... to me for a week before that. (she | not speak)

A The police finally caught the bank robbers early in the morning.

B I know. ............................................................... for them day and night. (they | look)

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