How to Use The Past Perfect Continuous Tense in English, Definition and Example Sentences
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Past perfect continuous tense, like present perfect continuous tense, is used for events that have taken place in the past and involve a certain process. But in order to use this time, the action that has taken place in the past and lasts for a certain period of time must be preceded by another action. In its simplest form, past perfect continuous tense describes another event in the past before an event in the past. In order to use past perfect continuous tense in a sentence, there must be another event after it. The logic of this tense is the same as present perfect continuous tense, but the events in question must have happened in the past and ended in the past.
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This tense is commonly used with the words for / since and after / before. There are also used adverb of time envelopes, the whole day, all day, all morning, lately, recently, all evening yesterday, by, by the time etc.
Positive sentence rule in past perfect continuous tense: ‘had’ is brought to all subjects as an auxiliary verb. ‘been’ comes before the verb. We bring the -ing suffix.
Note: ” had been ” structure can be shortened to ” d been ”.
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Negative sentence rule in past perfect continuous tense: Likewise, as an auxiliary verb after all subjects ‘had’, but then we should bring the ‘note’ suffix. ‘been’ comes before the verb, and the -ing suffix is added to the verb.
For Negative sentences with present perfect tense
Question sentences: In past perfect continuous tense, the ‘has’ auxiliary verb precedes the subject, ie it is written at the beginning of the sentence. the ‘been’ comes after the subject, followed by the verb -ing suffix.
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