Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense Exercises - Test 1

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1. 1 What in the world would he have been going to Montreal for, at this time of year? (what in the world/he/go/?)
2. 2 They did not know that I was ill, did they, or they wouldn't have been dancing, poor little things? (not/dance)
3. 3 It would have been breaking my contract in the spirit, though not actually in the letter. (break)
4. 4 In another month I would have had control of the men, and the property will have been payingwould have been paying a good dividend. (pay)
5. 5 To avoid this, sail was kept on the ship, though, under any other circumstances, with an open sea before her, she would have been runingwould have been running under bare poles. (run)

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6. 6 If Bolton had not turned back to buy the basket, he would have been passingwould not have been passing a house on which masons were working at the very moment when a ladder, carelessly placed against it, happened to fall with a crash. (not/pass)

7. 7 There are women to whom all this warfare would have been divertedwould have been diverting, but it was not so to Lee. (divert)
8. 8 She was pretty nearly certain that some one would have been protectingwould have protected the younger one when the younger one would have been needing that thing. (protect)

9. 9 The poor creature was in a high fever, and to grant her request will have been sendingwould have been sending her to her death. (send)
10. 10 If there had been, this house would have been standingwould not have been standing here empty all these years. (not/stand)
11. 11 It would not have been fightingwould not have been fought fair. (not/fight)

12. 12 If it had been like the one that fell in Siberia a few years ago, or the one that made the Winslow crater in Arizona-we would have been talkingwould not have been talking about it. (not/talk)
13. 13 If she had been a little Quaker girl she would have been thinkingwould not have been thinking of her sins, and making new resolves. (think)
14. 14 If they wanted to send me a message, it for me at Kingston. (wait)
15. 15 Did he then waste his time in what would seem wild imagination, when a more practically minded boy he would have been applyingwould have been applying for work? (apply)

16. 16 It would have been actingWould it have been acting in accordance with his conscience to overlook her wily artifice? (it/act/?)

17. 17 In another ten minutes, I suppose, odds and ends of chicken would have beenwould have been flying in the air. (fly)
18. 18 Who would have thought such ideas would have been runingwould have been running through so young a head. (run)
19. 19 My geographical knowledge of that country in its most important particular. (want)
20. 20 If there had been any firing, I would have been wanderingwould not have been wandering about by the Tibetan flank without a revolver in my hand. (not/wander)