talkalot intermediate book 1 past perfect continuous

Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms For more fun worksheets, games, and quizzes log onto www.englishbanana.com now!. Past Perfect Continuous = two past acti

Talk a Lot

Intermediate Book 1

Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms

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Past Perfect Continuous = two past actions – one is continuous

Time of action: Past

When do we

need to use it?

To describe a continuous action in the past that happened before another past action

To set the scene To give background information

- I’d been hoping for an A in Maths, but I got a B

- She’d been expecting Trevor at seven, so she was annoyed when he arrived at quarter to eight

How is it formed? 1st clause: had (aux.) + been + present participle (-ing verb);

2nd clause: (often) past simple

Contractions in

spoken English:

I had been Ö I’d been L]ÇKÄfåL=

She had been Ö She’d been Lp]\KÄfåL Examples:

Positive Form

Negative Form

Question Form

Answers:

The children had been swimming all day, so when they got home they were absolutely exhausted

The children hadn’t been swimming all day, so…

Had the children been swimming all day?

Yes, they had / No, they hadn’t

Passive form: Rare, but possible, e.g The documents had been being prepared

since… [they had been “in the process of” being prepared since…]

Used with

state verbs?

No, e.g I’d been liking playing the guitar = I’d liked playing the guitar

Tips: • This is a good form for showing cause and effect, e.g.

“Something had been happening, so something else

happened.”

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