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
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To Talk About actions that
finished just before a certain point in the past.
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POSITIVE
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SUBJECT
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AUX.
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BEEN
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VERB + ING
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I
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Had
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Been
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Working
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NEGATIVE
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SUBJECT
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AUX. + NOT
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BEEN
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VERB + ING
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I
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Hadn’t
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Been
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Working
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QUESTION
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AUX.
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SUBJECT
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BEEN
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VERB + ING
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Had
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You
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Been
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Working?
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In Positive Sentences
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He had been running for an hour when it
started raining
When I saw
him I knew that he had been training
In Questions
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For how many
hours had freed been painting the house when the ladder fell?
In Negative Sentences
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It had not
been raining since morning
Spoken Practice
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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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