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In this article, we are going
to discuss tense category's probable last tense which is 'past perfect progressive tense' in detail. We have already explained the past perfect tense in the previous post (GrammarPoint 1.6) of this site, if you want to mine more information about tenses then
you can refer to the tenses label. This time we will learn grammar from an audio
type file from website http://eslyes.com.
Here, the story is about raising the kids right. Where we listen to the story of Louise and Neil and their throughs and thinking of raising kids.
Here, the story is about raising the kids right. Where we listen to the story of Louise and Neil and their throughs and thinking of raising kids.
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| Past perfect progressive tense. |
This story is about raising the Kids Right. Where we listen to the story of Louise and Neil about their throughs and thinking of raising kids.
Here, in the first sentence
“Louise and Neil
had
been dating for three years.”
Grammar point: 1.7) Past perfect progressive:
Formation of the tense:
had (not) + been + ing form of the verb.
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When to apply this tense?
This tense is used to express an activity that unfinished or
recently finished at the time. We can also expressions ‘since’ and ‘for’ to
show unfinished time.
In our example:
Here, at the beginning of the story
“Louise and Neil
had
been dating for three years.”
This tense is used in the story to show Louise and Neil still
dating means the activity of dating is unfinished.
More Examples:
1) We had
been waiting for my friend for an hour.
2) Sanjana had
started walking at 6:00 am and it’s 6:30 am she had been still
continued walking.
3) I had
been working on my blog for the last two days.
Grammar
point: 1.7.1) Past
perfect progressive:
Asking questions with past perfect progressive
tenses same as present perfect progressive tense, in past perfect progressive we
replace helping verb ‘have/has’ to ‘had.’
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| Forming Questions |
Forming short answer questions.
Structure:
Had + Subject + been + -ing verb
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Question- Had Louise and Neil been dating
for three years?
Possible answers
Ans. - Yes, they had.
Ans. - No, they hadn’t.
Forming questions
answer for more information rather than yes-no:
Structure:
Wh-Question word + had + Subject + been + -ing verb form
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Wh-words
list:
Who
What
Where
How
Which
Question- Why had you been sleeping
a lot lately?
Ans- We had taken the bus.
Similar questions:
What had Adam been doing yesterday?
Where she had been working before here.
Similarly way we can form question
answers in whatever wh-words are.
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