Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous

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Past Perfect Continuous

Is a verb tense which is used to show that an act...

Past Perfect Continuous (Structure)

Examples

For: a "period" is a duration of time - five minutes, two weeks, six years. For means "from the beginning of the period to the end of the period". Since: a "point" is a precise moment in time - 9 o'clock, 1st January, Monday. Since means "from a point in the past until now".

1. Tom had been traveling around the world since the month of December.
2. They had been playing hockey on that field for three hours.
3. The poet had been writing romantic poems since morning.

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