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Past perfect continuous - Coggle Diagram
Past perfect continuous
examples
- She had been working at that company for five years before she quit.
- He was tired because he had been running.
- They had been playing football when it started to rain.
- I had been trying to contact her all week.
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adverbs
Here are some common adverbs and adverbial phrases often used with the past perfect continuous tense:
- for (e.g., for two hours)
- since (e.g., since morning)
- all day / all week / all night
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uses
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To describe repeated or continuous actions that were happening in the past before being interrupted.