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The document discusses the past perfect continuous tense in English grammar. It is used to describe an activity that began in the past and continued up until another time in the past. Examples are given of sentences using the past perfect continuous tense structure of "had been verb+ing", including sentences describing activities that had been ongoing before other past events like meeting someone, arriving somewhere, or a company going out of business.
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Presentation 10
- 1. The Past Perfect Continuous By : Ghada Elfauomy
- 2. It expressed an activity that continued for a period of time before another action in the past . Examples : Before I met him yesterday , he had been studying his lessons . It was now six and he was tired because he had been working since dawn . After they had been gathering the harvest , they sold it . Had + been + v_ ing
- 3. They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived. She had been working at that company for three years when it went out of business. How long had you been waiting to get on the bus? Mike wanted to sit down because he had been standing all day at work. James had been teaching at the university for more than a year before he left for Asia.