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Past perfect continuou

Grade: 11° th

Stream: B

Teachers name:

Saidilique Mecanico Arame

Maganja secondary general secondary school

Maganja 2019

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Índice
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3

Past perfect continuous....................................................................................................................4

Form.................................................................................................................................................4

Affirmative......................................................................................................................................5

Negative...........................................................................................................................................5

Interrogative.....................................................................................................................................5

Examples..........................................................................................................................................6

Conclution........................................................................................................................................7

Publiography....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction

The past perfect continuous (also called past perfect progressive) is a verb tense which is used
to show that an action started in the past and continued up to another point in the past. The past
perWe use the past perfect continuous to show that something started in the past and continued
up until another time in the pastfect continuous is formed using had + been + present participle.

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Past perfect continuous

The past perfect continuous is a verb tense that expresses an action that started in the past and
hasn't finished yet. That action continued up until another time or another action in the past. We
form the past perfect continuous with two elements

Form:

1 – the past perfect of the verb to be (had been)

2 – present participle of the verb (base + ing)

Structure of the past perfect continuous:

Subject + past perfect of the verb to be + present participle of the main verb

Example in the affirmative, interrogative and negative sentence

A) they had been waiting for three hours when their parents finally arrived. 

B) had they been waiting for three hours when their parents finally arrived? 

C) they had not been waiting for three hours when their parents finally arrived? /

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Affirmative
I had been loving
you had been loving. .
She/ he/ it had been loving.
We had been loving. 

They had been loving.

 .

Negative
I hadn't been loving. 
You hadn't been loving. 
She/ he/ it hadn't been loving. 
We hadn't been loving. 
They hadn't been loving.

 .

Interrogative
Had i been loving? 

Had you been loving? .
Had she/ he/ it been loving? 
Had we been loving? 
Had they been loving? 

We use the past perfect continuous when an action started in the past and hasn’t finished until
another time in the past. We can use with this verb tense expressions like “for two minutes”, or
“for three weeks”, or “for one hour”. Also we can use it to express a cause of something in the
past

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Examples
A) i had been talking for five hours with my sister before my mum arrived.

B) he had been working at his father’s company for ten years when they closed.

C) how long had you been waiting to get the train?

D) My best friend Samantha had been teaching at the university for two years before she left for
Australia.

E) Rodrigo was really tired because he had been walking all day

F) Chris failed the middle term because he had not been going class

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Conclution
Present Perfect Continuous: This is an action that has not been completed, that is still
happening. It is formed by the verb to have (have / has) conjugated in simple present + the
verb to be conjugated in present perfect + the gerund (-ing) of the main verb.

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Publiography
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