This document discusses the past perfect continuous tense in English grammar. It provides definitions and examples to explain the usage and meaning of this tense. Specifically, it states that the past perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that was ongoing or progressing up until a specific point in the past. It then gives three main functions of this tense: 1) to describe an action that was ongoing in the past until a certain past time point, 2) in conditional sentences, and 3) in reported or indirect speech. The document also provides formulas to conjugate the past perfect continuous tense in positive, negative, and interrogative forms. Finally, it distinguishes the past perfect continuous tense from the present perfect continuous tense.

1. Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
By :
 Yuniar Ma’arif (23)
 Yupita Gravito A. P (24)

2. Pengertian
Past perfect continuous tense adalah suatu
bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk
mengungkapkan suatu aksi (dengan durasi
waktu tertentu) telah selesai pada suatu titik
waktu tertentu dimasa lalu.

3. Fungsi Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
1. Menceritakan tindakan yang telah terjadi
dan sedang berlangsung di masa lalu
sampai titik waktu tertentu di masa lalu juga.
 Contoh :
When Indra came, Nina had been cooking.

4. Fungsi Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
2. Kalimat pengandaian
Contoh :
If it hadn’t been raining, we would have played
football.

5. Fungsi Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
3. Kalimat tak langsung (reported / indirect speech)
Contoh:
Direct speech : “She was cooking”
Indirect speech : She said that she had been
cooking.

6. Rumus Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
1. Positif (+)
Subject + had + been + verb-ing + object
Contoh :
(+)He had been living in Jakarta about ten years
- Dia telah sedang tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10
tahun

7. Rumus Past Perfect
Continuous
2. Negatif (-)
Subject + had + not + been + verb-ing + object
Contoh :
(-) He had not been living in Jakarta about ten
years
- Dia belum tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10 tahun

8. Rumus Past Perfect
Continuous Tense
3. Introgative (?)
Had + subject + been + object ?
Contoh :
(?) Had He been living in Jakarta about ten years ?
- Apakah dia telah tinggal di Jakarta selamat 10
tahun ?

9. Perbedaan Present Perfect
Continuous Tense dan Past
Perfect Continuous Tense
Present Perfect Continuous Tense digunakan
untuk mengungkapkan tindakan yang terus
berlanjut sampai sekarang, sedangkan kejadian
yang menggunakan pola Past Perfect Continuous
Tense telah terjadi dan telah selesai

10. Exercise
1. Dina was on her hands and knees on the
floor. She ___ (look) for her cigarette lighter
2. We ___ (walk) along the road for about 20
minutes when a car stopped and the driver
offered us a lift
3. When I arrived,Rina ___ (wait) for me
4. When I arived,everyone was sitting round
the table with teir mouth full. They ___
(eat)

11. Answer
1. Dina was on her hands and knees on the floor.
She Had been looking for her cigarette.
2. Had been walking along the road for about 20
minutes when a car stopped and the driver
offered us a lift.
3. When I arrived, Rina Had been waiting for me.
4. When I arived,everyone was sitting round the
table with teir mouth full. They Had been eating.