Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous: Talk About Ongoing Actions Before a Specific Past Time

The Past Perfect Continuous tense describes actions that started and continued up to a specific time in the past. Form it using “had been” + the verb’s -ing form (e.g., “I had been working” or “They had been waiting”). This tense emphasizes the duration of an action before another event happened.

Learning the Past Perfect Continuous helps you talk about past actions in more detail, making your descriptions clearer and more precise.

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous

The Past Perfect Continuous is a verb tense we use to express that an action started in the past and has continued ...

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