Past Perfect Continuous Tense

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Днес ще разгледаме Минало перфектно продължително време.

Минало перфектно продължително време се използва за изразяване на действие започнало в миналото и  извършвано до друг момент в миналото.

Минало перфектно продължително време набляга на продължителността на действието или времетраенето на действието в миналото. 

The present perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an action that started in the past and has continued up to another point in the past.

The pаst perfect continuous usually emphasizes duration, or the amount of time that an action has been taking place. 

Past Perfect Continuous Tense 🌝  Минало перфектно продължително време

Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to express a past action that started in the past (a long action) and continued up to another action in the past (a short action).

Examples:

We had been looking for the car key  for 2 hours when my mom found it.

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Past Perfect Continuos tense                                                               Past Simple tense

             long action                                                                                        short action

Образуване 😃  Form

Минало перфектно продължително време се образува с помощта на спомагателния глагол have в минало време had + миналото причастие на глагола be + сегашното причастие на  главния глагол

The Past Perfect Continuous tense is formed with the auxiliary verb have in past tense had + past participle of verb be (been) + present participle of the main verb (verb + ing).

had + been + (verb+ing) 

Examples:

✦The temperature had been decreasing, because the road was very icy yesterday.

✦She had been studying for three hours, before I told her that the test was postponed. (using the time expression for, we emphasize the duration)

✦While I had been working on my project, my brother had been listening to music and my mother had been preparing the dinner, somebody had entered the garage and had stolen our car.

(by using while we show parallel actions happening in the same time)

Формата на сегашното причастие се образува като към глагола се прибави окончанието -ing. 

⭐Понякога настъпват промени в глагола, вижте кога в урока за минало продължително време тук.

Отрицателните изречения в минало перфектно продължително време се образуват като към спомагателния глагол had прибавим not + миналото причастие на глагола be (been) + сегашното причастие на главния глагол (verb+ing)

Negative statements in Past Perfect tense are formed with had + not + past participle of verb be (been) + present participle of main verb (verb +ing)

(had+not) + been + (verb+ing)  

Examples:

✦I hadn’t been living in Madrid when I was a child.

✦She hadn’t been studying before I phoned her.

Въпросителните изречения в минало перфектно продължително време се образуват с инверсия на глагола had и подлога + миналото причастие на глагола be (been) + сегашното причастие на главния глагол (verb+ing)

Questions are formed by inversing, switching the positions of the verb had and pronoun + past participle of verb be (been) + present participle of main verb (verb +ing).

Positive question: had + subject+ been + (verb+ing)

Negative question: hadn’t + subject + been + (verb+ing)

Examples: 

✦Had I been living in London till I moved to France?

✦Had she been studying for three hours before I called her?

Yes, I had. /No, I hadn’t.

Yes, she had. / No, she hadn’t.

При образуване на въпрос с въпросителните думи where, when, why, what, how, how long   изречението започва с въпросителната дума + спомагателния глагол had + подлога + миналото причастие на глагола be + сегашното причастие на  главния глагол.

Examples:

✦How long had you been living in London?

✦What had she been studying when I phoned her?

Въпросите към подлога се образуват без инверсия и с формата had.

Examples:

✦Who had been living in London?
✦ Who had been studying?

Употреба 😃 Use

Употреба😃 Use	Пример 😃example
За изразяване на минало действие, което е започнало и е продължавало да се случва преди настъпването на друго действие в миналото To express a past action, that had already started and continued to happen until another action or time in the past occurred. (Emphasize the duration, how long the action has continued)	✦ They had been waiting all morning when they cancelled the flight because of bad weather. ✦ She had been studying for 5 years in Paris, when she suddenly decided to move to London. ✦ We had been celebrating my birthday all evening when the policeman knocked on the door and gave me a warning. ✦ I had been repairing the bicycle for a while, when my parents gave me a new one.
За да покаже действие, причинило някакъв ефект To show cause and effect Cause is usually shown in past perfect continuous tense	✦ The ground was wet yesterday morning because it had been raining during the night. ✦ She was tired last weekend because she had been working a lot during the week. ✦ My sister had been overeating for a while, so she gained some weight.
В разказвателната реч In reported speech	✦ She said that she had been living in London. ✦ I asked the post manager why I had been waiting so long for the package.

Past Perfect Continuous Tense is not used with non-action verbs

We use Past Perfect Tense instead of Past Perfect Continuous Tense with a non-action verb in a sentence. Let’s see again some information about them in the Present Perfect Continuous tense lesson here.