TENSE TUESDAY: PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS BEFORE SOMETHING IN THE PAST
26 / 04 / 2016
TENSE TUESDAY: PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS BEFORE SOMETHING IN THE PAST: meaning and examples
Welcome to Tense Tuesday on The Daily Vitamin! Today we are looking at the Past Perfect Continuous as an on-going activity before something else in the past.
Remember that the Past Perfect Continuous uses this form:
HAD BEEN -ING
In this situation, we have two tenses in one sentence: Past Perfect Continuous and Simple Past. The Past Perfect Continuous shows something in the past that continued for some time. It continues until the Pas Simple action.
Example 1: We had been waiting for two hours before she arrived.
Example 2: They had been dating for five years and then he finally asked her to marry him.
Example 3: He had been studying Biology for four years when he suddenly decided to become an artist.
We looked at the Past Perfect Continuous last week: click on the following link to see another way to use this tense.
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=2786
That's all for today. Thanks for reading!
Remember that the Past Perfect Continuous uses this form:
HAD BEEN -ING
In this situation, we have two tenses in one sentence: Past Perfect Continuous and Simple Past. The Past Perfect Continuous shows something in the past that continued for some time. It continues until the Pas Simple action.
Example 1: We had been waiting for two hours before she arrived.
Example 2: They had been dating for five years and then he finally asked her to marry him.
Example 3: He had been studying Biology for four years when he suddenly decided to become an artist.
We looked at the Past Perfect Continuous last week: click on the following link to see another way to use this tense.
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=2786
That's all for today. Thanks for reading!
