Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous = Any action or event that had already started in the past and also finished in the past.

Past Perfect Continuous

Focus the point =

Past Perfect = When work had finished.

Past Continuous = When work was in progress. The progress was finished.

Past Perfect + Continuous = When the work had started and was going on, but finished.

Note – Continuous tenses are also called Progressive tenses, so Past Perfect Continuous is sometimes called Past Perfect Progressive.

Past Perfect Continuous

Rules –

• Had + been + verb 1st form + ing = I, He, she, it, you, we, they, this, that, these, those, there, here, singular noun, and plural nouns, etc.
  

– Abbreviation of Had = “Had” short form is ” ‘d ” – I’d, He’d, She’d, We’d, They’d, It’d, or Noun’d, etc.

– Abbreviation of Would = “Would” short form is ” ‘d ” – I’d, He’d, She’d, We’d, They’d, It’d, or Noun’d, etc.

But the difference is depended on “Verb form.”

• “Had” comes with “been + verb 1st form + ing” = I‘d been working on that task.
• “Would” comes with “verb 1st form” = I‘d work on that task.

Past Perfect Continuous

Format –

• Affirmative = Subject + had + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words.
• Negative = Subject + had + not + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words.
• Simple Interro = Had + subject + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words?
• Simple Interro Negative = Had + subject + not + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words?
• Interrogative = Wh-family + had + subject + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words?
• Interrogative Negative = Wh-family + had + subject + not + been + verb 1st form + ing + (other words) + since/for + other words?

Past Perfect Continuous

Definition –

1. Already Started Progress and Finished = The action or event had already started in the past and the progress was going in the past, and that progress also finished in the past.

e.g. –

• They had been working there for years. (Progress started in the past and also finished in the past.)
• He had been caring for my family since 2000. (Progress started in the past and also finished in the past.)
  
• The company had been firing 500 employees. (Progress started in the past and also finished in the past.)
  
• I had been cleaning the car. (Progress started in the past and also finished in the past.)
• She had been going for the morning walk since she was a child. (Progress started in the past and also finished in the past.)

Time –

Since (Point in time) = Since – last Sunday, last year, 1997, yesterday, 12o’ clock, 1st April, 7:20 pm or am, the beginning of the life, (I) left study, (anything else you can mention but ‘point in time.’…

For (Period of time) = For – two years, 2 hours, 5 days, 2 centuries, 3 months, 3 weeks, a long time, months, years, weeks, hours, centuries, decades, ever, minutes, most of the life, (anything but ‘period of time.’…

e.g. –

• I had been doodling this drawing for 10 minutes. (means: Progress started only for 10 minutes in the past, and also finished in the past.)
• They had been performing on the stage since I was young. (means: Progress started from “I was young” in the past, and also finished in the past.)
• He hadn’t been calling her for 3 months. (means: Progress started for 3 months in the past, and also finished in the past)

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