{"id":436,"date":"2021-12-29T04:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2021-12-29T04:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:23:51","slug":"past-perfect-continuous-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/29\/past-perfect-continuous-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Perfect Continuous Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>past perfect progressive tense<\/strong>&nbsp;is an extension to the past perfect tense and its structures. Past perfect progressive is used to demonstrate an action which continued for a specific period of time but stopped before another action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Subject + had + been + verb+<em>ing<\/em>&nbsp;+ . . . . . + for\/since + . . . . .+ before + subject + past simple tense<\/strong>Alan had been playing cricket for 18 years before he retired.Jack had been living in Sydney since 2010 before he moved to Melbourne.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Note:&nbsp;<\/strong>This tense can be replaced by the past perfect tense withdrawing&nbsp;<strong><em>for\/since<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Examples of\u00a0Past Perfect Continuous Tense Examples.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I had been writing articles on various topics for three hours.<\/li><li>He had been reading different kinds of books since morning.<\/li><li>They had been playing football in that field before it started to rain.<\/li><li>Jane had been gossiping in the coffee shop for two hours.<\/li><li>Jeff had been studying in the library before he came to the class.<\/li><li>We had been shopping in that shop before we came home.<\/li><li>We had been watching a movie in this Cineplex for three hours.<\/li><li>You had been shopping in that market before you came home.<\/li><li>I had been singing different kinds of songs for an hour.<\/li><li>I had been listening to melodious songs for two hours.<\/li><li>Tom had been traveling around the world since the month of December.<\/li><li>They had been playing hockey on that field for three hours.<\/li><li>The poet had been writing romantic poems since morning.<\/li><li>The lyricist had been writing realistic songs since the beginning of his career.<\/li><li>Had you not been enjoying the concert for three hours?<\/li><li>I had not been watching the cricket match on television for two hours.<\/li><li>Richard had been practicing to sing the song since morning.<\/li><li>I had been helping him to do the task before I started the program.<\/li><li>We had been enjoying the program thoroughly for three hours.<\/li><li>I had been shopping with my elder brother in the fair since morning.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;past perfect progressive tense&nbsp;is an extension to the past perfect tense and its structures. Past perfect progressive is used to demonstrate an action which continued for a specific period of time but stopped before another action. Structure: Subject + had + been + verb+ing&nbsp;+ . . . . . + for\/since + . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}