Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Arranged by : Dyah Arifiani S. and Indah Amaliah N.

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to show an activity that started before the time of speaking on the past time and go on until that time, or finish nearly before the people speaking. This form is almost same with Present Continuous Tense, except that activity is done on the past time.

                 already

          

  Past Perfect Continuous Tense

 

pass of time                              continue ( S + had + been + Verb_ing)

There are 4 condition types that can show you on past perfect continuous tense :

1.      Tell about activity from Past Perfect Tense that still happen until now.

As the example, “I had been joining the class since January when you told me that you were moving to my class.”

2.      Is used if you want to focus about result that happened after an activity had been done. The activity was happened on the past time and perhaps would not you do again. Usually, word of “all day long, all night long, ect” are used to show the long time when do the job.

For example, “I had been working all day long when you called me. I was tired.”

3.      Is also used if want show the progress from an activity, same with Past Perfect Tense, just happened on the past time.

For the example, “I had been thinking about changing my clothes when my friends told me that it was bad.”

4.      Can be used in undirect sentense, the sentense tell back  what have told before.

Example, “I went to see Tom yesterday. He looked tired. He said, ‘I have been working all day today’”

He said that he had been working all day long  yesterday. That was why he looked tired.