PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

BY:KAICITA MALDIATI

2bNPM: 11.10.010.745.052

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

each tenses perfect continuous contains is meaning,still happened.explain for sometime activity that after and happending past time.In the “past “ always verb two ( V2) is HAD,The type one is Have / Has.Where , in the “perfect”always verb three(V 3) from be(tobe) Is Been.and then “continuous’always verb ing(V ing).Example:I had been sleeping all day

FORMULA PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

TYPE POSITIF( Subject + had +been +ving)EXAMPLE: I had been playing tennis for ten minutes

when she came.Ali had been working for an hour when I leftThey had been playing football.

2.Ali had not been working for an hour when I left3.They had not been playing football

Type interrogatif(Had +subject +been +verb-ing +Object)Example: Had he been playing tennis for ten minutes

when she come.

Type negative sentence subject+ had+ not+ been+verb-ing+object

example:1. He had not been playing

tennis for ten minutes when

Had Ali been working for an hour when I left ?Had They been playing football?

Type interrogatif negatif sentence(Had +subject +Not +been + V-ing + object )Example:Had Jhon and Merry not been loving each

other?

Remainder between past perfect continuous with past continuous.

Past perfect continuous:When I looked out the window ,It

had been raining .AndPast continuous:(Subject +was/were

+V-ing)Rain was falling at the time I

looked out the window.

Notes: can use to all subject,Example: I /WE / YOU / THEY HE / SHE / IT Adverb of time :

When ,Since ,For ,Befor,After,