Past Perfect Continuous Tense. Grammar lesson.

Past Perfect Continuous Tense. Grammar lesson

{D2 F9 E8 E8-1 B99-4 F86-8232-0 D66 B38308 BC}+I, she, he, it, you, we, they(full form)hadbeen working. I, she, he, it, you, we, they(short form)’d−I, she, he, it, you, we, they(full form)had notbeen working. I, she, he, it, you, we, they(short form)hadn’t? +Had I, she, he, it, you, we, theybeen working?? −(full form)Had I, she, he, it, you, we, theynotbeen working?(short form)Hadn’t I, she, he, it, you, we, they. We use had + been + the -ing form of the verb.

Past perfect continuous: uses. Continuing events in the past. We use the past perfect continuous to talk about actions or events which started before a particular time in the past and were still in progress up to that time in the past: It was so difficult to get up last Monday for school. I had been working on my essays the night before and I was very tired. (The past perfect continuous focuses on the activity of working on the essays up to a particular time in the past.)A: Why did you decide to go travelling for a year?B: Well, I’d been reading an amazing book about a woman who rode a horse around South America. I was just halfway through the book when I decided I had to go travelling and that was it. I just took a year out of work and went. (The past perfect continuous focuses on the activity of reading the book at the time when she made her decision. She hadn’t finished the book when she made her decision.)We can use the past perfect continuous to talk about events which started before a time in the past and which finished, but where the effects or results were still important at a point in the past: It had been raining and the ground was still wet.

Маркери часу З часом Past Perfect Continuous використовуються певні слова та вирази, що вказують на те, що дія почалася, тривала певний проміжок часу та завершилася у минулому або до іншої дії у минулому часі.before – доtill – до (здебільшого в заперечних реченнях)untill – до (здебільшого в заперечних реченнях)for an hour – протягом годиниfor 5 hours – протягом п'яти годинfor a day – протягом дняfor a week – протягом тижняfor a month – протягом місяцяall morning / the whole morning – весь ранокall day (long) / the whole day – весь деньall week / the whole week – весь тижденьall month / the whole month – весь місяцьall year (round) – весь рікsince 5 o’clock – з 5-ї годиниsince last week – з минулого тижняsince last month – з минулого місяцяsince 1991 – з 1991 рокуsince last century – з минулого сторіччяppt_x

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Виконати інтерактивну вправу "Past Times. Verb forms"Натисніть на посилання Складіть та запишіть 2 речення з будь-якими дієсловами з вправи

Home work. Переглянути відео "Past Perfect Continuous vs. Past Perfect" для узагальнення знань з теми (додається у Classroom). Виконати інтерактивну вправу "Past Perfect Continuous" (натисніть назву гри або на скрін гри)