ENGLISH TENSES (8) PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

The PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE is formed using “had been” with the -ing form of a verb (e.g. I had been working).

 The past perfect continuous tense is used to describe a past action that continues up to another past action, e.g. “The moose had been walking around outside the house in Breckenridge when it fell into a window well early Friday morning and crashed through into the basement.”

In other words, as the song says, “hoots mon there’s a moose loose aboot this hoose” 😃

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