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How do we use the Past Perfect Continuous Tense?

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  1. Exercise 2. Supply the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous or the Past Perfect Simple.
  2. Exercise 4. Choose the right tense form: Past Perfect or Past Simple.
  3. Exercise 4. Supply The Past Indefinite, The Past Continuous or The Past Perfect Simple.
  4. Exercise 5. Insert The Past Indefinite or Past Perfect.
  5. Exercise 6. Insert The Past Continuous or Past Perfect tense.
  6. Exercise 6. Read the text and use Past Perfect or Past Simple for the verbs in brackets.
  7. Exercise 8. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous Tense.

The past perfect continuous tense is like the past perfect tense, but it expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past. For example:

Ram had been waiting for two hours when I arrived.
past present future
Ram starts waiting in past at 9am.    
     
   
I arrive in past at 11am.    

Here are some more examples:

You can sometimes think of the past perfect continuous tense like the present perfect continuous tense, but instead of the time being now the time is past.

past perfect continuous tense   present perfect continuous tense
had | been | doing | >>>> | | | | |     | | | | have | been | doing | >>>> |  
     
past now future   past now future

For example, imagine that you meet Ram at 11am. Ram says to you:

Later, you tell your friends:

 


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