Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

• Budowa:

Zdania twierdzące

OSOBA + HAD + BEEN + CZASOWNIK + ING + RESZTA ZDANIA

Zdania przeczące

OSOBA + HAD + NOT + BEEN + CZASOWNIK + ING + RESZTA ZDANIA

Zdania pytające

HAD + OSOBA + BEEN + CZASOWNIK + ING + RESZTA ZDANIA

Liczba pojedyncza:

• I had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• You had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• He had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• She had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• It had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

Liczba mnoga:

• We had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• You had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• They had been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

Liczba pojedyncza:

• I hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• You hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• He hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• She hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• It hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

Liczba mnoga:

• We hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• You hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

• They hadn’t been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home

Liczba pojedyncza:

• Had I been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had you been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had he been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had she been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had it been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

Liczba mnoga:

• Had we been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had you been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Had they been trying to find him for hours before he finally came back home?

• Zastosowanie:

– do opisania czynności, która trwała w przeszłości przez pewien przedział czasu, zanim wydarzyła się inna czynność przeszła.

– do opisania czynności, które były lub nadal są zwyczajem lub nawykiem i wielokrotnie powtarzały się w przeszłości

Czasu Past Perfect Continuous używamy z takimi wyrazami jak: since, for, all day, all the morning, evening, etc.