Past Perfect Progressive

Aswa Amanina bt Abu ShairiNur Farhana bt Mohd Room

Syazana Fatin bt IsahakAtikah Islamiah bt Azman

What is past perfect progressive?

Used to show something that started in the past, and continued up until another time in the past

The activity ends in the past

The structure

Had been = verb + ing

She had been waiting for the bus when it suddenly

rained

I had been watching the

television when she arrived

How to use?

AccordingHow to use?

According to the sequences of events

She had been crying for hours, when she heard the news of her grandmother’s death.

I had been watching the television, when the power went out.

Know, understand,

owe, possess, etc

Some verbs

usually do not

use -ing

These verbs are

called stative verbs

Rules to

remember!

When using past

perfect progressive, do not use

the word

‘before’ because past perfect progres

sive already expresses one activity happen

ed before another

.

She had been reading the book, before the light went out

She had been reading the book, when the light went out

The past perfect continuous tense is like the past perfect tense, but it expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past. 

Siti had been waiting for 2 hours when Ali arrived.

We had been sleeping for hours when the alarm went

on

Mom had been cooking since 10 am when I arrived

home

Example