Past Perfect Continuous

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Past Perfect Continuous

Positive sentence: Subjective+ had+ been+ Verb-ing+ Complement.

Negative Sentence: Subjective+ had+ not+been+ Verb-ing+ Complement.

Question: Had + subjective+been+ Verb-ing + Complement?

The Past Perfect Progressive is used:

-   To describe a past action, already started and continued up to another action or time in the past

Ex: The boys had been playing soccer for about an hour when it started to rain.

-   To express the duration before something in the past

Ex: Richard needed a holiday because he had been working hard for six months.

-   To describe the cause of something in the past

Ex: He was tired because he had been jogging.

- Adverbs of Time

  When;   Before;   By the time;   For;   Since; …

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