Read the situations and make sentences from the words in brackets.

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Past Perfect Continuous утворюється з допоміжного дієслова to be в Past Perfect та дієприкметника теперішнього часу основного дієслова. Дієслово в Past Perfect Continuous не змінюється за особами:

I (you, he, she, it, they, we) had been work ing.

Питальна, заперечна і питально-заперечна форми Past Perfect Continuous утворюються за тими ж самими правилами, що й відповідні форми Present Perfect Continuous.

Питальна форма: Had you been working?

Заперечна форма: I had not (hadn’t) been working.

Питально-заперечна форма: Had he not been working? Hadn’t he been working?

Цей час виражає тривалу дію, яка почалася до якогось моменту в минулому і або продовжувалася в цей момент, або закінчилася безпосередньо перед ним. Час тривалості дії або її початок вказує так само, як і в реченнях з дієсловом у Present Perfect Continuous, але здебільшого час тривалості дії зазначається:

I explained that I had been looking for it for the last two hours. (Jerome)	Я пояснив, що вже дві години шукаю його.
There sat her father. The newspaper he had been reading had dropped on the carpet. (Gaskell)	Там сидів її батько. Газета, яку він читав, упала на килим.

Read the situations and make sentences from the words in brackets.

1. I was very tired when I arrived home.

(I/work/hard all day)

I had been working hard all day.

2. The two boys came into the house. They had a football and they were both very tired.

(they/play/football)

3. There was nobody in the room but there was a smell of cigarettes.

(somebody/smoke/in the room)

4. Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She was frightened and didn't know where she was.

(she/dream)

5. When I got home, Mike was sitting in front of the TV. He had just turned it off.

(he/watch/TV)

2. Choose the correct answer:

1. Why … your coat today? It is very warm.

a) are you wearing

b) do you wear

c) will you wear

d) don’t you wear

2. The earth … round the sun.

a) goes

b) went

c) was going

d) has gone

3. How often … tennis?

a) is Tom playing

b) does Tom play

c) was Tom playing

d) did Tom played

4. The teachers didn’t have dinner at the canteen, … they?

a) did

b) didn’t

c) had

d) hadn’t

5. Listen! It … heavily.

a) rains

b) has been raining

c) rained

d) is raining

6. The doctor … Spanish at the last meeting.

a) spoke

b) speak

c) speaks

d) has spoken

7. At nine o’clock yesterday I … television.

a) was watching

b) watched

c) had been watching

d) am watching

8. He hasn’t come yet, …?

a) doesn’t he

b) does he

c) has he

d) hasn’t he

9. I … for three years.

a) haven’t skated

b) didn’t skate

c) don’t skate

d) wasn’t skating

10. Be careful! You … a grammar test.

a) do

b) is doing

c) are doing

d) were doing

11. In the middle of the picnic it suddenly … to rain.

a) began

b) was beginning

c) has begun

d) had begun

12. She asked when the secretary usually ….

a) is coming

b) came

c) come

d) will come

13. I’ll tell Ann all the news when I … her.

a) shall see

b) saw

c) see

d) will be seeing

14. I … for ages!

a) didn’t see

b) wasn’t seeing

c) hadn’t seen

d) haven’t seen

15. He asked me when I … the day before.

a) came

b) had come

c) shall come

d) come

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