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Form of the past perfect continuous: · You had been waiting there for more than two hours when she finally arrived. · Had you been waiting there for more than two ...
15.04.2016 · VC4.1 – Past-Perfect-Continuous-1 We begin the lesson with a quick review of the past perfect simple using a timeline (two events in the past, one completed before another one). We then explain that the past perfect continuous is used to stress duration, or to express an activity that was occurring close in time to another activity:
19.09.2012 · On the other hand, the past perfect continuous is rarely used by native speakers in their daily activities. The choice whether to teach this tense should, therefore, be made based on a student needs analysis: Do the students need to understand the past perfect continuous for use on exams such as the TOEFL or Cambridge exams , or is the focus of the class more on …
03.06.2019 · Past perfect is also used for actions completed in the recent past, not a very long time ago. The past perfect tense form of a verb has two parts: The past tense form of ‘to be’ – known as helping verb or auxillary verb; Past participle form of the main verb. The structure of the sentence: Affirmative sentences:- Subject + helping verb ...
3. We use the Past Perfect Continuous before another action in the past to show cause and effect. Example: I was so tired. I had been revising my lessons for hours. Related pages . Past Perfect Simple; Past perfect simple. Exercises on the past perfect and past perfect continuous.
In this lesson students practice past perfect and past perfect continuous reviewing the usage. The lesson starts with two sentences and a differentiating ...
The past perfect continuous is used for the action in process and the past simple for the action that interrupted the action. As we use this tense to refer to something we were doing over a period of time in the past, we generally use the prepositions of time “ for ” or “ since ”. Examples: I’d been working for hours when I fell ...
Students start by identifying the correct past progressive tense in a set of sentences. Next, students complete sentences with their own ideas in the past ...
Form of Past Perfect Tense, Form of Past Perfect Continuous Tense ; 1. To be: (+) S + had been + Adj/ Noun + O She had been a good dancer when she met a car ...
past perfect lessons 10 lessons 60 min Internet cats Intermediate (B1-B2) This lesson, themed around the biographies of three famous cats (Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub and Bob the Street Cat), helps students review and consolidate questions for past simple, past continuous, past perfect and present perfect forms.