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Past Perfect Continuous: утвердительные предложения

450 упражнений с пропусками, 45 тестов по десять

Had been для любого подлежащего, затем глагол с -ing.

Схема

С подлежащим не согласуется ничто — had been одинаков для всех:

I had been working. She had been working. They had been working.

Краткая форма — ’d been: I’d been, she’d been, they’d been.

Прошлый момент обычно назван

Поскольку это время мерит до точки, предложение почти всегда говорит, до какой:

• By the time the guests arrived, she had been cooking for five hours.
• He had been living in Oslo before he moved here.

Без этой опоры предложение кажется незаконченным.

for и since

Деление то же, что и везде: for с длиной, since с точкой начала.

They had been driving for eight hours / …since six in the morning.

Два шага назад в рассказе

Повествование в Past Simple может шагнуть назад дважды — один раз на более раннее событие, другой на занятие, которое заполняло время до него:

She opened the door. He had been sitting there since noon, and he had not moved.

Все формы

Примеры

Взяты из 450 предложений этого упражнения. Ответ выделен.

• The students had been working on their essays all day and were relieved when they finally finished.
• They had been playing basketball every evening before one of them injured their ankle.
• The team had been practicing hard all season before they won the championship.
• I had been waiting for that job for months before they finally offered it to me.
• He had been taking the exam for three hours before he finished.
• She had been studying English for years before she became fluent.
• He had been searching for a job for months before he finally got an offer.
• She had been writing letters to him for years before they met.
• The chef had been cooking the meal for hours before serving it to the customers.
• We had been reading that book for days before we finally finished it.
• She had been doing her homework before watching TV.
• We had been watching a movie for an hour when the projector suddenly stopped working.

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