Mark Stevens wanted to give her daughter a doll's house for her birthday, but he wanted to build it himself. It was now eight in the evening and he was tired because he had been working at the shop since eight in the morning. But he didn't have any other free time to do it. He was delighted with his new power saw. He had been wanting one for a long time. He had everything ready to start working: the tool-box, the electric drill, the saw, the sandpaper, the hand drill and the pieces of wood. When he was going to plug his new power saw, he noticed someone had already used it. He plugged it, but it didn't work. «Had anyone been using my new power saw while I was working?», he asked himself. «I hadn't been saving so much time to get a broken power saw.» He entered his house and after talking to his family he discovered his son had been repairing the dog's house. I / he / she / it
we / you / they | had ('d) | been V - ing |
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we / you / they | had not (hadn't) | been V - ing |
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| Uses | The Past Perfect Continuous is used:
• to talk about an action which was in progress before another one in the past, and which was completed before then.
• with adjuncts of frequency and duration such as always,often,since then,all day, etc., to specify when the action began.
• instead of Past Perfect Simple to refer to a repeated action.
• with the verb want and sometimes with wish, although they are not used in other continuous tenses. |
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