Past Perfect Progressive Tense FUNCTIONS OF THE PAST
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Past Perfect Progressive Tense
FUNCTIONS OF THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS • The past perfect continuous corresponds to the present perfect continuous, but with reference to a time earlier than 'before now'. As with the present perfect continuous, we are more interested in the process. • Easy sentence to make you more understand , the event that has happened but it still happening on that moment and it has timeline.
Simple Sentences in the Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Subject Have/Has + Been + Verbing Rest of Sentence had been talking for two hours when he got up and left had been texting her long before they met I / You / We / They He / She / It
Negative Sentences Structure Of Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Subject Auxiliary Verb Been + Verbing Rest of Sentence I / You / We / They He / She / It hadn’t (had not) been sleeping when you arrived
Yes/No Questions Structure Of Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Auxiliary Verb Subject Had Been + Verbing Rest of Sentence been working when she called been assisting you I / you / we / they he / she / it Hadn’t
Wh-Questions Structure Of Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Wh-Word Auxiliary Verb What had Who Subject I / you / we / they he / she / it Been + Verbing Rest of Sentence been doing until then been dating before me
Statement • Ben had been working for three hours when Rachel came home. • By the time Sam found an umbrella, it had been raining for ten minutes. • By the time Catherine got to the office, the client had been waiting for an hour. • The client had been waiting for an hour by the time Catherine got to the office. • I had been feeding the dogs when I tripped and fell.
Question • Had he been drinking when you found him? • Had the manager been complaining about Jim before she fired him? • Hadn’t the snow been falling for hours before then? • What had you been doing when you cut your finger? • Which fax had you been trying to send when the power went off? • How long had he been waiting?
