The Past Perfect Continuous is used to talk about an ongoing action that was taking place until another specified moment in the past.
The Past Perfect Continuous is normally used with the Past Simple to talk about an activity that was in progress before another action or event happened. In such statements the Past Simple denotes a specific point in time – the completed event in the past.
The Past Perfect Continuous is used to express the following.
The Past Perfect Continuous describes a repeated or continuing action that was taking place before that completed event.
We can also use the Past Perfect Continuous to explain the cause of something in the past.
To make the Past Perfect Continuous, we use:
had been + the “-ing” form of the verb (Present Participle)
Singular | Plural |
I had (’d) been fishing You’d been fishing He/she/it’d been fishing | We’d been fishing You’d been fishing They’d been fishing |
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