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    The past perfect continuous tense describes actions or events that were ongoing or in progress up until a specific point in the past. It is used to indicate the duration of an action up until another past event occurred, such as being cancelled or interrupted by something. Common uses are to specify how long something had been happening, like playing music or smoking, until another past event took place.

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    The past perfect continuous tense describes actions or events that were ongoing or in progress up until a specific point in the past. It is used to indicate the duration of an action up until another past event occurred, such as being cancelled or interrupted by something. Common uses are to specify how long something had been happening, like playing music or smoking, until another past event took place.

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    Past Perfect Continuous

    Unit 5C – A Good Read


    Past Perfect Continuous (I had been doing)

     The past perfect continuous describes actions or


    events that were in progress before or up to (or
    nearly up to) a certain point in the past. The time
    of this another event (that perhaps interrupted or
    affected the earlier event) is in the past simple.
     They had been working on the project for ten

    months when it was cancelled.


     We had been playing for half an hour when there

    was a terrible storm.


    Past Perfect Continuous (I had been doing)

     The past perfect continuous is often used to


    state the length of time that something
    happened up until a past time:
     We had been playing guitar all evening and

    were tired.
     He had been smoking for 30 years when he

    finally gave it up.


    * It can’t be used with stative verbs!
    * It can’t be used to describe completed
    actions.
    Thank you!

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