Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense is formed with 'had been' plus present past participle.
Affirmative Statements Negative Statements
I had been writing ? I had not been writing ?
Affirmative Questions Negative Questions
Had I been writing ? Had I not been writing ?
Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used:
i) For an action that began before a certain point in the past and was still going on. It mainly indicates that an action had been in progress when something else happened.
Ex: When I met him last, he had been learning English for six months.
He said he had been waiting for the last one hour.
He looked tired because he had been working for three days.
Past Perfect Continuous Tense is formed with 'had been' plus present past participle.
Affirmative Statements Negative Statements
I had been writing ? I had not been writing ?
Affirmative Questions Negative Questions
Had I been writing ? Had I not been writing ?
Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used:
i) For an action that began before a certain point in the past and was still going on. It mainly indicates that an action had been in progress when something else happened.
Ex: When I met him last, he had been learning English for six months.
He said he had been waiting for the last one hour.
He looked tired because he had been working for three days.
