Comments on: The Past Perfect Continuous Tense http://learnenglish.byexamples.com/the-past-perfect-continuous-tense/ The grammar of English Language is being broken down to make learning simple and straight forward. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: aliciaallyloh http://learnenglish.byexamples.com/the-past-perfect-continuous-tense/#comment-61 aliciaallyloh Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:31:40 +0000 http://learnenglish.byexamples.com/the-past-perfect-continuous-tense/#comment-61 Thank you for your positive comment. The Past Perfect Continuous tense is usually used to make sense when you want to convey the message of two past actions; one action is longer ("had been") than the other. Here are more examples. I hope they will help other readers understand this tense better. • It had been snowing all night. The grounds were a perfect white. • If you had been studying hard, you would have a better scoring. • My grandmother had not been eating very well of late. She had lost some weight. • I had not been feeling well, so I consulted a doctor this afternoon. • Mary had been cooking all day, before her children came home to visit. • Dad had been working very hard in the office, he needed to take time off to relax. Thank you for your positive comment. The Past Perfect Continuous tense is usually used to make sense when you want to convey the message of two past actions; one action is longer (”had been”) than the other.

Here are more examples. I hope they will help other readers understand this tense better.

• It had been snowing all night. The grounds were a perfect white.
• If you had been studying hard, you would have a better scoring.
• My grandmother had not been eating very well of late. She had lost some weight.
• I had not been feeling well, so I consulted a doctor this afternoon.
• Mary had been cooking all day, before her children came home to visit.
• Dad had been working very hard in the office, he needed to take time off to relax.

]]> By: Open English http://learnenglish.byexamples.com/the-past-perfect-continuous-tense/#comment-60 Open English Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:47:46 +0000 http://learnenglish.byexamples.com/the-past-perfect-continuous-tense/#comment-60 Good post... do you think you could give more examples though? I know this is a tough tense to learn and practice well. Good post… do you think you could give more examples though? I know this is a tough tense to learn and practice well.

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