Kyle Pounds - past perfect continuous

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Past Perfect Continuous

	Singular	Plural
1st person	I had been working	we had been working
2nd person	you had been working	you had been working
3rd person	he, she, it had been working	they had been working

Past Perfect Continuous expresses the idea that in the past, up to another point in the past, an action had been happening that had an influence on the thing that happened at a specific time in the past.

Past 1---------------- X Past X -----------------

Present

Example: I was acting strangely when you came last night because I had been drinking a lot.

* The contexts that Past Perfect Continuous and Past Continuous are used can overlap, so when to use them is sometimes subject to the speakers discretion.

Past Perfect Continuous - When you saw me I had been drinking a lot. (This is more immediatly in the past, just that day).
Past Continuous - When you saw me I was drinking a lot. (This is for more time in the past, the previous week).

1) Kyle played well in the soccer game last week because he had been practicing a lot.

2) James was acting strangely at that party because he had been living in jail for five years and just got out that morning.

3) Kyle had bags under his eyes because he hadn't been sleeping very much because of the new medication he was taking.

4) James was sweating because he had been running.

5) Kyle's voice was hoarse when he was talking to me because he had been yelling a lot.

6) I wasn't playing very well because I hadn't been practicing very much.

7) Kyle knew exactly how to respond to all of the questions at the interview because he had been studying them all day long.

8) Spanish was still very fresh in James' mind when he was in Miami because he had been traveling through South America for three years.