Welcome to this tutorial today.
We're going to talk about the past perfect continuous tense.
Let's get started now.
We use the past perfect continuous when we talk about an action a long one which began in the past and
continued up until another time in the past.
Have a look at the example over here.
Sammy had fun playing with his food when his mom walked into the kitchen.
Note that this sentence is in the past perfect continuous tense and it's used to talk about an action
that began in the past.
He continued ups until another time in the past now to form the past perfect continuous tense.
We use had plus spin plus for i n g.
Let's have a look at the examples below positive sentence.
Tom was very tired when he got home.
He had been working all day or he'd been working all day.
Negative sentence.
Tom wasn't very tired when he got home.
He hadn't been working all day question for why was Tom tired when he got home.
Had he been working all day let's have a look at the difference between I have done working voices I
had been working present form I hope the bus come soon.
We've been reading for 30 minutes past at last.
The bus came.
We'd been waiting for 30 minutes present.
Lily is out of spread.
She has been running tests for Lily was out of breath.
She had been running.
Now we can use the past perfect continuous tense with phrases such as all day all morning for days.
For ages when etc. have look deep samples.
You know Samantha.
When did a doctor.
Last Monday.
She hadn't been feeling well for some time my sister had been playing with her friends outside for an
hour when it started to rain heavily.
Remember the nun continuous verbs such as to love hate no one etc. are not used in any continuous tenses.
Make sure to use the past perfect instead.
Have a look at the examples over here.
We were good friends.
We had fun knowing each other for years.
Now this sentence would be incorrect because the 4th no can not be used in any continuous tenses.
The correct form would be we were good friends we had known each other for years.