This document discusses the past perfect and past perfect progressive tenses in English. It provides examples of how to form sentences in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative for both tenses. The past perfect is used to talk about actions completed before a point in the past, while the past perfect progressive refers to ongoing actions started and finished prior to another past time or event. Examples are given for each tense formation.

3. • for an action which finished before another
past action or before a stated time in the
past.

4. •for an action which finished in the past and whose
result was visible at a later point in the past
•for a general situation in the past

6. Had he slept?
INTERROGATIVE
Had I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they worked.

7. Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they had.
SHORT ANSWERS
No, he hadn't.
I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they
 Had he slept?

8. Form: subject + had + been
+ main verb -ing
We use the PPP to talk about of a past
action which started and finished in the
past before another past action

9. AFFIRMATIVE
I/You/He/She/It/We/You/They had been swimming
Examples:
 I had been Reading for two hours when I remembered
the homeworks of English
You had been writing in the book when you looked
your pet that sleeping on the bed
He had been painting the wall when he took a soda
She had been dancing in the discoteck when her
mother called

10. NEGATIVE
I/You/He/She/It/We/You/They had not/hadn´t
been swimming
Examples:
I hadn´t been reading when my father came
to my room
You hadn´t been writing in the book
They hadn´t been playing in the garden
when started to rain

11. Past Perfect Progressive for Questions
Form: Had+subject+been +main verb -ing
Had I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they been swimming?
Had he been swimming when he traveled to alaska?
Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they had.
No, I/he/she/it/we/you/they hadn´t
SHORT ANSWERS

12. He had worked in a Factory for twoyears
He never hadn´t played basketball
He had smoked in the park
She hadn´t gone jogging yesterday
Examples
Past perfect

13. Past perfect progressive
I hadbeen speaking englishfor two hours
You hadn´t been goingMiami
Had you been playing football?
I hadn´t been walking for two hours