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TENSES |
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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE |
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Past Perfect Continuous is used to express an action that began before a certain point in the past and continued until another time in the past.
• Structure for Past Perfect Continuous •
subject |
auxiliary verb |
auxiliary verb |
main verb |
subject |
had |
been |
base+ing |
They |
had |
been |
going. |
• Structure for Negative sentence •
subject |
auxiliary verb |
auxiliary verb |
main verb |
subject |
had |
not + been |
base+ing |
They |
had |
not been |
going. |
• Structure for interrogative sentence •
auxiliary verb |
subject |
auxiliary verb |
main verb |
Had |
subject |
been |
base+ing |
Had |
they |
been |
going? |
We use the past perfect continuous tense to:
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express an action began before past and continued until another time in the past. |
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USES OF PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE |
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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE TABLE |
AFFIRMATIVE |
NEGATIVE |
INTERROGATIVE |
I had been going. |
I had not been going. |
Had I been going? |
You had been going. |
You had not been going. |
Had you been going? |
We had been going. |
We had not been going. |
Had we been going? |
He/She had been going. |
He/She had not been going. |
Had he/she been going? |
They had been going. |
They had not been going. |
Had they been going? |
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