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Work in pairs and finish the last sentence of the paragraph.
When he opened the door he was shocked. There were clothes all over the floor. His bookshelves were empty and the books were in a big messy pile. There was paper everywhere. The bathroom was also a mess: broken glass on the floor, his bottle of favourite shampoo gone. He looked around and knew immediately what had happened. They…
THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FORMATION
Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative | |||||
I You He She It We You They | had been working | I You He She It We You They | had not (hadn’t) | been working | Had | I you he she it we you they | been working? |
The Past Perfect Continuous is formed with the auxiliary to be in the Past Perfect + the Present Participle.
USAGE
The Past Perfect Continuous is used to denote:
1) an action which began in the past and continued for a period of time up to another action in the past: When I came home, my mother had been cooking dinner for more than two hours.
2) an action of certain duration which had a visible result in the past: When the boys came into the house, one had a black eye. They had been fighting.
The following time expressions can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous: for (used with the period of time), since (used with the beginning of the period of time) |
EXERCISES
1. Explain the use of the Past Perfect Continuous forms. Translate into Russian. Start like this:
Model: He was tired. He had been working non-stop for 12 hours. (The verb to work is used in its Past Perfect Continuous tense form to denote an action of certain duration which had a visible result in the past.)
1) They had been living in this city for 3 years when their son came back to the USA.
2) We felt tired when we came home because we had been walking in the rain for a long time.
3) It had been raining for 2 hours when we left home.
4) Angela rose from the arm-chair in which she had been sitting since morning.
5) David saw that Margie had been weeping, but didn’t say anything.
6) I thought that he had come to talk about the problem which we had been already discussing for hours.
7) She had been learning French for 5 years before she could speak fluently.
8) How long had you been waiting before he came?
9) When the test was over, the students found out that they had been writing it for 2 hours.
10) Mark tried to stop his friend who had been talking for the last 10 minutes.
11) She said she had been working for three hours by the time he came home.
12) By the time I came home my mother had been cooking dinner for two hours.
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