Past Perfect Continuous

• Form:   I/we/you/they  had  been playing

                           He/she/it           had been playing

• Use

• The past  perfect continuous is used in the following cases:

• To talk about an action that was occurring over a period of time in the past.

         e.g.  He is angry, he had been waiting her for hours.

• To talk about an action that had been happening finished in the past before another past action.

        e.g. I had been waiting for two hours  when she finally came.

          We had been preparing dinner before Dane arrived.

            Mike had been living in New York for more than a year before he left to Los Angeles.

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