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Welcome to this tutorial today.

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We're going to talk about the past perfect continuous tense.

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Let's get started now.

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We use the past perfect continuous when we talk about an action a long one which began in the past and

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continued up until another time in the past.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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Sammy had fun playing with his food when his mom walked into the kitchen.

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Note that this sentence is in the past perfect continuous tense and it's used to talk about an action

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that began in the past.

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He continued ups until another time in the past now to form the past perfect continuous tense.

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We use had plus spin plus for i n g.

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Let's have a look at the examples below positive sentence.

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Tom was very tired when he got home.

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He had been working all day or he'd been working all day.

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Negative sentence.

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Tom wasn't very tired when he got home.

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He hadn't been working all day question for why was Tom tired when he got home.

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Had he been working all day let's have a look at the difference between I have done working voices I

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had been working present form I hope the bus come soon.

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We've been reading for 30 minutes past at last.

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The bus came.

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We'd been waiting for 30 minutes present.

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Lily is out of spread.

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She has been running tests for Lily was out of breath.

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She had been running.

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Now we can use the past perfect continuous tense with phrases such as all day all morning for days.

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For ages when etc. have look deep samples.

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You know Samantha.

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When did a doctor.

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Last Monday.

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She hadn't been feeling well for some time my sister had been playing with her friends outside for an

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hour when it started to rain heavily.

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Remember the nun continuous verbs such as to love hate no one etc. are not used in any continuous tenses.

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Make sure to use the past perfect instead.

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Have a look at the examples over here.

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We were good friends.

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We had fun knowing each other for years.

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Now this sentence would be incorrect because the 4th no can not be used in any continuous tenses.

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The correct form would be we were good friends we had known each other for years.