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.