PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE To talk about a continuous

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE To talk about a continuous or repeated earlier activity. HAD + BEEN + ING I had been waiting for two hours when the bus finally arrived. (The bus arrived in the past, and before that, I had been in the on-going process of waiting for it to come. )

Past Perfect Simple Past NOW Past Perfect Progressive q Simple Past: Past event q Past Perfect: To identify the earlier of two events (when the order of events is not clear) q PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE: To talk about a continuous or repeated earlier activity.

Past Perfect Simple Past NOW Past Perfect Progressive • I had been reading a book at Starbucks when you called. Past Perfect Progressive Simple Past (The action of reading was continuous; it had been going for some time and I was not necessarily done reading when you called and interrupted the action) • I had read a book at Starbucks when you called. Past Perfect Simple Past (I had already finished reading when you called)

• I ________ (debate) whether to call him for the last two days until he phoned and asked me out today. • ________ (you/ be) waiting very long before I met you? • Joy Division ________ (attract) many fans until the lead singer killed himself and they became New Order. • We ________ (walk) along the river when it started to rain and we got soaking wet.

HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE Past perfect HAD + BEEN + ING or Past Perfect Progressive He ________ very fast when he crashed. (drive) I was sure I __________ him before. (see) She ______ about the places for years, so I finally went there. (tell) I ______ already _____ three books before the first one was published. (write) She _______ planes forty years before she died. (fly)