PAST PERFECT/PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

PAST PERFECT Past actions previous to other past

actions

Past perfect Past Simple

Train leaving. 7.15

Me getting at the station- 7.30

PAST PERFECT EX: I got to the station at 7-30 but

the train to London had already left.

PAST PERFECT Before/ after/By the time

After he had asked for a loan, the owner decided not to sell the house.

By the time he was sixteen, he had lived in twenty different countries.

Past perfect continuous HAD BEEN +V-ING HADN´T BEEN +V-ING HAD YOU BEEN + V-ING?

EX. HE WAS OUT OF BREATH. HE HAD BEEN FLYING HIS KITE

Past perfect continuous YOU CAN SAY THAT SOMETHING

HAD BEEN HAPPENING FOR A PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED EX. OUR GAME OF TENNIS WAS

INTERRUPTED. WE´D BEEN PLAYING FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR WHEN IT STARTED TO RAIN

Past perfect continuous EX: KEN GAVE UP SMOKING TWO

YEARS AGO. HE´D BEEN SMOKING FOR 30 YEARS

PRESENT PERFECT C. / PAST PERFECT C. EX: I hope the bus comes soon. I

´ve been waiting for 20 minutes. EX:At last the bus came, I´d been

waiting for 20 minutes (before the bus came)

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