PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

PAST PERFECT

CONTINUOUS

TEACHER

YASMIN

SENTENCE PRACTICE

01

I had been teaching English for five years before I quit.

02

he had been working for fifteen years before resigning.

03

We had been chatting with each other for two years before we met in person.

04

they had been playing outside all day.

05

Hadn’t we been meeting regularly until you moved away?

STRUCTURE

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

HAD BEEN + VERB (-ING)

PAST PERFECT OF VERB "BE"

CONTINUOUS FORM OF THE MAIN VERB

TWO (OR MORE) ACTIONS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. BUT THE FIRST ONE (THAT WAS A CONTINUOUS ACTION, GETS THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS.)

HOW DO WE USE PAST PERFECT?

+INFO

Past Perfect Continuous is often used with the duration of the action and the result of the action

DURATION

ACTION

Jane had been swimming for a decade when she won a gold medal at the Olympics.

Our dog had been attending training classes for a month before he finally learned to sit.

You had been practicing guitar almost every day until you got a job.

Fill in the blanks

They (look) for their cat for three days until it suddenly reappeared.

We (wait) at the bus stop for half an hour when the bus finally arrived.

I (STAY) in the house the whole day, so I wanted to go out for dinner.

He (work) for the same company for ten years when he was laid off.

It (rain) for a week before the sun finally came out again.

I (stand) the whole day, so my legs were tired.

SENTENCE BUILDING

Talk about actions that started and ended in the past, using the following words and the past perfect continuous tense.

USE THAT COMPUTER

BOUGHT NEW COMPUTER

EXAMPLE

LEARN ENGLISH

MOVED TO CHICAGO

work, got promoted

WRITE NOVELS

"I had been working for five years when I got promoted."

BECAME FAMOUS

DATE EACH OTHER

SING ON THE STREET

EAT

RECEIVED A CALL

WAS DISCOVERED

GOT MARRIED

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