Past Perfect Continuous

How do we form a sentence in Past Perfect Continuous?

• Subject + have + been + V-ing + Complement

• Subject + had + V-past participle + Complement

• Subject + have + V-past participle + Complement

• Subject + had + been + V-ing + Complement

What is the purpose of the past perfect continuous in the following sentence:

The boys had been playing soccer for about an hour when it started to rain.

• To express the duration before something in the past

• To describe a past action, already started and continued up to another action or time in the past

• To describe the cause of something in the past

What is the purpose of the past perfect continuous in the following sentence:

He was tired because he had been jogging.

• To express the duration before something in the past.

• To describe the cause of something in the past

• To describe a past action, already started and continued up to another action or time in the past

What is the purpose of the past perfect continuous in the following sentence:

Richard needed a holiday because he had been working hard for six months.

• To describe a past action, already started and continued up to another action o time in the past

• To express the duration before something in the past

• To describe the cause of something in the past

I _______________ (work) all day, so didn't want to go out.

• had worked

• had been worked

• had been working

He was red in the face because he ______________ (run).

• had run

• had been running

• had been run

Again, old man Carlson was in very needy circumstances; his boy _____________ (live) with his wife for four years.

• had been living

• hadn't been lived

• hadn't been living

If I _____________ (walk) in the garden, very likely he might have died.

• had not been walking

• hab been walking

• had not been walked

They (a)   (live) in Beijing for three years when he lost his job.

She (a)   (sleep) for ten hours when I woke her.