Past Perfect Progressive Rules
Here you can find tables with Past Perfect Progressive rules on:
positive sentences, negative sentences and questions.
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Positive Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples |
| I | had + been + verb + ing | I
had been waiting all day. |
| He/She/It | He
had been waiting all day. She had been waiting all day. It had been waiting all day. |
|
| You | You had been waiting all day. | |
| We | We had been waiting all day. | |
| They | They had been waiting all day. |
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Negative Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples |
| I | had +
not + been + verb + ing hadn't + been + verb + ing |
I
had not been waiting all day. I hadn't been waiting all day. |
| He/She/It | He
had not been waiting all day. He hadn't been waiting all day. She had not been waiting all day. She hadn't been waiting all day. It had not been waiting all day. It hadn't been waiting all day. |
|
| You | You
had not been waiting all day. You hadn't been waiting all day. |
|
| We | We
had not been waiting all day. We hadn't been waiting all day. |
|
| They | They
had not been waiting all day. They hadn't been waiting all day. |
Question Sentences
| Who? | Form of verb | Examples | |
| Had | I | been + verb + ing | Had I been waiting all day? |
| he/she/it | Had
he been waiting all day? Had she been waiting all day? Had it been waiting all day? |
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| you | Had you been waiting all day? | ||
| we | Had we been waiting all day? | ||
| they | Had they been waiting all day? |
So these are the Past Perfect Progressive rules.
