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Past Perfect Continuous: Talking about Past Events

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Docente: María Ángeles Pérez

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Past Perfect Continuous: Talking about Past Events

Puntos clave

El past perfect continuous es un tiempo verbal que se utiliza para hablar de acciones que ocurrieron durante cierto momento del pasado, antes de que se realizara otra acción.


Info 1: Past Perfect Continuous

El past perfect continuous indica que una acción estaba teniendo lugar durante un momento determinado del pasado, antes de que ocurriera otra acción o fuera interrumpida. También se emplea para hablar de acciones de larga duración en el pasado. 


Se forma con el verbo have en pasado, el participio del verbo to be y un verbo acabado en -ing. En español, corresponde a "haber estado + gerundio".


Affirmative: Sujeto + had + been + verbo en -ing + (complemento)


Negative: Sujeto + had not + been + verbo en -ing + (complemento)


Interrogative: Had + sujeto + been + verbo en -ing + (complemento)


  Ejemplos
I had been driving for hours when I found a motel
He hadn't been working there for long before he got fired
Had you been waiting for long in the rain before the cab arrived?


Info 2: Past Perfect Continuous Contractions

Dada la complejidad y longitud de esta forma verbal, es normal hacer contracciones en el past perfect continuous, tanto en afirmativo como en negativo:

  • Oraciones afirmativas: sujeto + had = 'd
  • Oraciones negativas: had + not = hadn't


  Ejemplos
We'd been reading the manual for hours before she explained it to us 
Sonia hadn't been sleeping much that week, so she was exhausted




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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cómo se contrae el past perfect continuous?

En afirmativo, el sujeto y "had" se contraen como 'd. En negativo, "had" y "not" se contraen como "hadn't".

¿Cómo se forma el past perfect continuous?

Se forma con el verbo "have" en pasado, el participio del verbo "to be" y un verbo acabado en "-ing", como "she had been working".

¿Qué es el past perfect continuous?

Es un tiempo verbal que indica que una acción estaba teniendo lugar durante un momento determinado del pasado, antes de que ocurriera otra acción o fuera interrumpida. También se emplea para hablar de acciones de larga duración en el pasado.

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