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1. PAST
PERFECT
CONTINUO
US
Students:
Ana Carolina
Fellipe Lima
Maria Luana
Raimundo Junior
Renata Benaion
Yanna Louise

2. THE USE OF PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
➤ We use past perfect continuous to emphasize repetition or
duration of an action in the past before other action in the past.
 EXAMPLE: They had been waiting for three hours when their
parents finally arrived.
What the heck???
Action 1: They were waiting for three hours
Action 2: Their parents finally arrived.

3. 2. Negative Form
 Example:
1. Affirmative Form
 Example:
STRUCTURE OF PAST PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
Subject + HAD + BEEN + Verb (ING)
Subject + HAD + NOT + BEEN + Verb (ING)
I had been saving my money to buy this
house.
I had not been studying a lot to pass in the
test.

4. 3. Interrogative Form
➤ Example:
Look at some typical Time
Expressions:
• For
• Since
• All morning
• All day
HAD + Subject + BEEN + Verb (ING) ?
Had he been waiting for her for a long
time?

5. EXAMPLES
 I had been talking for five hours with my sister before my mum arrived.
 He had been working at his father’s company for ten years when they
closed
 How long had you been waiting to get the train?
 Chris failed the middle term because he had not been going class.

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-Jaime Silveira