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13 de sept. de 2017 · We use the past continuous to indicate that a past action continued until another past event. We use the past perfect in cases that go beyond this: for example, if the action had stopped before the supevening event, or to emphasize that the action was previous or (as Vronsky says) if we want to indicate the duration of the action. Yesterday ...
18 de dic. de 2022 · past perfect continuous 2nd meaning is to emphasis duration. Continuous verb forms sometimes emphasise duration. This is independent of the choice of tense. The reason for using the past perfect is because "what i had been missing" happened before "my friend made me realize",
12 de ago. de 2021 · Aug 12, 2021. #2. The past perfect and its continuous are useful if you need to indicate that something happened in a more distant past in a narrative about the past: I had already been living in Moscow for several years (more distant past) before I first met Ilya (more recent past). =Alex= said:
3 de dic. de 2022 · The past simple helps emphasise the result, the past continuous helps emphasise the activity itself and the duration. Most of the time with an action verb, continuous forms work better when you mention a time period, but there are no firm rules. Rusletov said: "Ivan came to the excavations in Sungir.
23 de feb. de 2007 · Thanks a lot. Ciau. Hi, "We have been wasting" is a present perfect continuous. This tense is often used to express how much time has passed doing the particular action ("forma di durata"). "We have been wasting our time here for 3 hours". You would probably translate this using a present tense.
11 de nov. de 2018 · I wouldn't. 1) It's ' since leaving university' and we tend to use the perfect continuous with 'since' and in any case I feel it expresses the idea that she had made many applications over the period. 2) Again, I prefer the perfect continuous because it emphasises better what is was doing (flying from London to Frankfurt) when it was diverted.
3 de may. de 2021 · Here, duration might be important (she had been watching the film over a period of time), and this needs the past perfect continuous. The past continuous just says that she was watching it at the moment she turned it off. The girl who was standing/had been standing under the tree came up to us. Here, the events are presented in their correct ...
22 de ene. de 2023 · Cenzontle said: I agree with anthox. "Has been being fixed" is not grammatically wrong, but with the two forms of "be" in succession, it's not good style. These forms, with "has been", are present perfect continuous, also called present perfect progressive. Past perfect would include " had been..." Hm, Correct!
31 de jul. de 2019 · I'm studying Past Perfect Continuous and have some troubles. 1."The day when they arrived It had been raining all day and everyone was upset." 2."Unfortunately, it had been raining 24 hours not stop, so we couldn’t walk in the forest. "3."We stayed together around the fire and we had been talking all night."
22 de abr. de 2017 · Vronsky said: 1) When I woke up, the sun wasn't shining and the birds weren't singing yet. 2) When I woke up, the sun hadn't been shining and the birds hadn't been singing yet. Keith Bradford said: No.1 is fine. No.2 is wrong. If I want to say that when I woke up, the sun was/had been already shining for two hours, I think I should choose the ...
