Present Perfect Continuous Tense Negative Form Exercises - Test 1

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Completion count: 44

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• 1. But I haven't been hanging there all this time. (hang)
• 2. I haven't been riding much lately. (ride)
• 3. No … I haven't been waiting. (wait)
• 4. We have been livinghaven't been living a good or wise life of late. (live)
• 5. I have been behavinghaven't been behaving well, and am not particularly pleased with myself. (behave)

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• 6. Yet you say we have been stealinghaven't been stealing. (steal)
• 7. I have been buyinghaven't been buying any millinery. (buy)
• 8. We hope the writer hasn't been botheringhaven't been bothering about it for long. (bother)
• 9. I hope you have been getting intohaven't been getting into any more mischief. (get into)
• 10. It's the cold weather, and the show hasn't been payinghaven't been paying so well lately. (pay)
• 11. I hope you have been givinghaven't been giving yourself away. (give)
• 12. Where they are standing now, I stood fifteen years ago, and I need not tell you that I have been standinghaven't been standing still for the last fifteen years. (stand)
• 13. My experiences in another profession hasn't been wantinghaven't been wanting in incident, often of a curious and romantic kind, and sometimes almost startling. (want)
• 14. You abroad long enough to distinguish at a glance. (travel)
• 15. You them in from the top? (push)

• 16. Ralph, you are getting morbid-and you all day. (shoot)
• 17. You her for so long, and loving and caring for her as none knows better how to do, without feeling as if she was a bit like a child of your own. (nurse)
• 18. Things hasn't been goinghaven't been going very well with me lately. (go)
• 19. All of them perfect, however, which shows that he hasn't been digginghasn't been diging among the rocks very much, but has been feeding in low country for quite a while. (dig)
• 20. Why, there hasn't been a minute that I for my chance. (look)

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