PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

We use the past perfect progressive:

• To talk about situations or actions which started in the past and continue to the present.

• To talk about events that we predict will be in progress at a future point in time. These actions are unfinished.

• To talk about situations which started in the past and continued up to an earlier moment in the past.

• To talk about events that will finish before a specific time in the future.

Mark the structure of the past perfect progressive that is not correct:

• Subject + “had” + “been” + verb+ing…

• Subject + “had” + “been” + “not” + verb+ing…

• Had + subject + “been” + verbo + ing + ?

We use the past perfect progressive to:

• Emphasize that a situation or activity was temporary.

• Emphasize the duration of a situation or activity. We often use this tense to answer the question ‘How long …?

• Emphasize that a situation or activity is temporary.

choose the correct sentence:

• She not had been reading my book.

• I had been working here since I graduated.

• Had he been drinking too much?

• He had running been in class.

Her friends _____________ ( think) of calling the police when she walked in.

• had think

• are thinking

• had been thinking

• had thinking been

_______________(you/waiting) long before the taxi arrived?

• You had been waiting

• had been you waiting

• had you waiting

• had you been waiting

He ___________ ( not / sleep ) at her aunt´s house.

• had been not sleeping

• had not been sleep

• had been sleeping

• had not been sleeping

When I got home, my mother ________ off the TV because she __________the news.

• had turned / had just been watching

• had been turning / had watched

• had been turning / had watched

• had turning / had watch

They ________ for hours and ________track of the time.

• had been waiting / was

• had been waiting / had lost

• had waited / was

• had waiting / was

Mrs Simpson _______ the piano for about five minutes when the ceiling ______ ​over her

• had played / had been falling

• had been playing / fell

• played / had fallen

• had play / falling