Past continuous vs past perfect (Medium) Quiz

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📝 IELTS – English Grammar – Past continuous vs past perfect – Medium

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Choose the sentence that uses past perfect correctly.

After they have eaten, they went for a walk.

After they had eaten, they went for a walk.

After they were eating, they went for a walk.

After they eat, they went for a walk.

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Option A correctly uses past perfect to indicate that eating happened before going for a walk. Option B uses past continuous incorrectly, and options C and D use incorrect tenses for the sequence of events.

Identify the sentence that uses the past perfect tense correctly.

By the time we arrived, the concert starts.

By the time we arrived, the concert was starting.

By the time we arrived, the concert had started.

By the time we arrived, the concert is starting.

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Option A correctly uses the past perfect tense to show that the concert started before we arrived. Option B incorrectly uses the past continuous. Options C and D use the present tense, which is incorrect for this context.

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