8. Past Perfect Continuous

The Past Perfect Continuous is another tense that expresses the "past in the past".
In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Past Perfect Continuous tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding.

How do we make the Past Perfect Continuous tense?

The structure of the Past Perfect Continuous tense is:

  Look at these example sentences with the Past Perfect Continuous tense:

How do we use the Past Perfect Continuous tense?

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. For example:

• Ram started waiting at 9am. I arrived at 11am. When I arrived, Ram had been waiting for two hours.