Past Perfect Continuous Forms
Positive: Subject + had + been + verb + -ing
Negative: Subject + had + not + been + verb + -ing
Interrogative: Had + subject + been + verb + -ing
Keywords: by, for, by the time, after, never, ever, already, when, since
Present Continuous Uses
Positive (Subject + had + been + verb + -ing)
Examples:
I had been playing
You had been playing
He / she / it had been playing
We had been playing
You had been playing
They had been playing
Interrogative (Had + subject + been + verb + -ing)
Examples:
Had I been playing?
Had you been playing?
Had he / she / it been playing?
Had we been playing?
Had you been playing?
Had they been playing?
Negative (Subject + had + not + been + verb + -ing)
Full Form Examples:
I had not been playing
You had not been playing
He / She / It had not been playing
We had not been playing
You had not been playing
They had not been playing
Short Form Examples:
I had't been playing
You had't been playing
He / She / It had't been playing
We had't been playing
You had't been playing
They had't been playing
Exercises - Past Perfect Continuous
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1) They had talked had been talking for over an hour before he arrived.
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2) John failed the test because he hadn't been attending hadn't attended class.
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3) My mother wanted to sit down because she had stood had been standing all day at work.
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4) How long had you been studying German before you moved to Berlin? I hadn't studied hadn't been studying German very long.
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5) My brother was tired because he had been jogging had jogged .
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6) He had been drinking had drunk all day.
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7) They had prepared had been preparing the event for two years before they moved to London.
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8) We had walked had been walking two miles a day before my sister broke her leg.
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9) You had been waiting had waited there for two hours when she finally arrived.
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10) I had worked had been working at the company for four years when I got the promotion.