{"id":7843,"date":"2018-02-07T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:26:37","slug":"past-perfect-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/02\/past-perfect-continuous\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Perfect Continuous"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p>When telling a story or an action about the past, we use the <strong>past perfect continuous<\/strong>. In most cases, it is used with other narrative tenses like the past simple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> past perfect continuous<\/strong> shows an ongoing action in the past up until another past action. It is used to tell the events not in its correct sequence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A sentence with the correct sequence of events:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alice was having a lot of fun at the party, so she decided to stay up late.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A sentence with the events not in order:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alice decided to stay up late because she had been having a lot of fun at the party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing event that took place prior to the other verb is in the past perfect tense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Put any <strong>adverbs<\/strong> between had and been.<\/p>\n<p><em>She <u>had <strong>only<\/strong> been<\/u><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> studying<\/span> in the university for a semester before she got into trouble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sam <u>had <strong>already<\/strong> been<\/u><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> sleeping<\/span> for an hour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Form:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">I<br \/>\nyou<br \/>\nhe \/ she \/ it<br \/>\nwe<br \/>\nthey<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>had \/ \u2018d<\/p>\n<p>hadn\u2019t<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"205\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>been + verb-ing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When telling a story or an action about the past, we use the past perfect continuous. 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