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Past Perfect Continuous Tense: How to Use It, With Examples
- The past perfect continuous tense fryst vatten a verb tense used for talking about things that started at one point in the past and were ongoing up to some other point in the past. (Example: I had been living here for three years before inom learned the street names).
- The past perfect continuous fryst vatten formed bygd placing the phrase had been before the present participle struktur of a verb.
- The most common way to form eller gestalt a negativ statement in the past perfect continuous tense fryst vatten by placing the phrase hadnotbeen (or hadn’t been) before the present participle form of a verb.
- The past perfect continuous often works closely with phrasal adverbs, which provide data about when and for how long something was happening in the past.
Here, we’ll discuss how to use the past perfect continuous tense correctly and look at some examples.
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What is the past perfect continuous tense?
Past perfect conti
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Past perfect continuous (I had been working)
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I, she, he, it, you, we, they
(full form)
had
been working.
I, she, he, it, you, we, they
(short form)
’d
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I, she, he, it, you, we, they
(full form)
had not
been working.
I, she, he, it, you, we, they
(short form)
hadn’t
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HadI, she, he, it, you, we, they
been working?
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(full form)
HadI, she, he, it, you, we, they
not
been working?
(short form)
Hadn’tI, she, he, it, you, we, they
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Past Continuous, Pasf Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Continuous
Past Continuous, Pasf Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Continuous
0 Columbus discovered / was discovering America though at first he believed he
had reached/ had been reaching Asia.
1 Hillary and Tenzing were climbing / had been climbing for several days when they reached / had
reached the summit.
2 Scott reached / was reaching the South Pole in but Amundsen had beaten / was beating him
by a month.
3 Franklin flew / was flying a kite when he made / was making a very important discovery about
electricity.
4 Before Columbus discovered / was discovering America, people were believing / had believed that
the Earth was flat.
5 Newton made I was making his great discovery while he was sitting / had been sitting under an
apple tree.
2. Complete the sentences. Use the past continuous, past perfect simple or past perfect
continuous of the verbs in brackets.
0 They stayed in the tent because it was raining (rain).