Past Perfect Continuous Tense:Uses and Examples

                                                 Past Perfect Continuous Tense
     To denote an action that had been going on at, or  before ,some point of time in the past.We will learn about past perfect continuous tense uses and examples.
 

 

     Singular                               Plural                   In the past perfect continuous tense when the subject

 I  had been taking.         We had been taking         is singular or plural had been is used and ing form of

You had been taking.      You had been taking         the verb is added.

 He had been taking.       They had been taking 

 She had been taking.

  It had been taking. 

Rule-Subject+had been+Verb+ing+object
Eg: He had been living there for 10 years.
 

Uses of past perfect continuous tense

 
a) An action that began before a certain point in the past and continued up to that time.
Eg: 1) I had been teaching in this school for twenty years and then I left the school. 

       2)They had been working on the project since last year.

Few more examples:
1. I had been studying his poem.
2. We had been playing cricket.
3. You had been watering in garden since morning.
4.  He had been living there for 10 years.
5. Lata had been typing all day.
6. She had been singing a song.
7. The workers had been digging the road.
8. The snow had been falling continously.
9. They had been working on the project since last year.
10. I had been teaching in this school for twenty years.