{"id":74127,"date":"2020-04-19T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74127"},"modified":"2020-04-19T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:55:44","slug":"past-perfect-continuous-tense-form-and-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/past-perfect-continuous-tense-form-and-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Perfect Continuous Tense Form And Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Past perfect continuous tense forms<\/p>\n<h3>Affirmative<\/h3>\n<p>I had been writing.<br \/>\nShe had been writing.<br \/>\nYou had been writing.<\/p>\n<h3>Negative<\/h3>\n<p>I had not been writing.<br \/>\nShe had not been writing.<br \/>\nYou had not been writing.<\/p>\n<h3>Interrogative<\/h3>\n<p>Had I been writing?<br \/>\nHad she been writing?<br \/>\nHad you been writing?<\/p>\n<p>We use<b>\u00a0the past perfect continuous\u00a0<\/b>to talk about longer actions or situations which had continued up to the past moment that we are thinking about, or shortly before it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The President\u00a0<b>had been speaking\u00a0<\/b>for about half an hour when trouble started.<\/li>\n<li>When I found Ann, I could see that she\u00a0<b>had been crying.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>had been reading<\/b>\u00a0the novel for hours when the lights suddenly went out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Past perfect and past perfect continuous: differences<\/h3>\n<p><b>The perfect continuous tenses<\/b>\u00a0are often used to talk about more temporary actions and situations; when we talk about longer-standing or permanent situations we prefer\u00a0<b>perfect tenses.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My legs were stiff because I\u00a0<b>had been standing\u00a0<\/b>still for a long time.<\/li>\n<li>They lived in a castle which\u00a0<b>had stood\u00a0<\/b>on a hill above the village for 1000 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past perfect continuous tense forms Affirmative I had been writing. She had been writing. You had been writing. Negative I had not been writing. She had not been writing. You had not been writing.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[466,2711,344],"class_list":["post-74127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-past-perfect-continuous-tense","tag-past-perfect-progressive","tag-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74128,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127\/revisions\/74128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}