TENSES MADE EASY


Past Perfect Continuous




The Past Perfect Continuous is very similar to The Past Perfect. The difference between them is we use the past perfect continuous to express longer actions that in The Past Perfect. In addition while using this tense we focus we focus on the duration of an activity rather than the result of it.

USE:
1.      Duration of a past action up to a certain point in the past

Past Perfect Continuous
To Talk About actions that finished just before a certain point in the past.
POSITIVE
SUBJECT
AUX.
BEEN
VERB + ING
I
Had
Been
Working
NEGATIVE
SUBJECT
AUX. + NOT
BEEN
VERB + ING
I

Hadn’t
Been
Working
QUESTION
AUX.
SUBJECT
BEEN
VERB + ING
Had
You
Been
Working?

In Positive Sentences


He had been running for an hour when it started raining
When I saw him I knew that he had been training

In Questions


For how many hours had freed been painting the house when the ladder fell?

In Negative Sentences


It had not been raining since morning

Spoken Practice


Answer the following questions in Spoken English:
1.       Make 10 combine sentences of past simple and past perfect continuous, for Example;
When I reached home my brother had been watching T.V for 2 hours, etc.

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