EXERCISES. Употребление the Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Употребление the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

The Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Прошедшее совершенно-длительное время

Образование. The Past Perfect Continuous Tense образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be в форме Past Perfect (had been) и формы причастия настоящего времени (Present Participle) смыслового глагола: I had been working, he had been working.

В вопросительной форме первый вспомогательный глагол ставится перед подлежащим: Had I been working? Had he been working?

Отрицательная форма образуется при помощи частицы not, которая ставится после первого вспомогательного глагола: I had not been working, he had not been working.

a) Действие, которое длилось в течение периода времени вплоть до определенного момента в прошлом. The Past Perfect ContinuousTense употребляется, когда указан период времени, в течение которого действие уже совершалось, т.е. с такими обозначениями времени, как for two hours в течение двух часов, for three months в течение трех месяцев, for a long time в течение долгого времени, долго, давно и т.п.

She had been cooking for an hour when I came.

Она готовила уже час, когда я пришел.

b) Прошлое действие определенной длительности, которое имело очевидные результаты в прошлом.

He felt tired as he had been playing football for several hours.

Он чувствовал себя усталым, так как играл в футбол в течение нескольких часов.

Exercise 1.

Match the parts of the sentences.

1.	I had been trying to call him all morning	a).	when he called me.
2.	We had been working on the project for months	b).	for a few minutes but I think it might have been longer.
3.	She had red eyes because she had been peeling onions.	c).	I hadn’t been paying any attention to him.
4.	I hadn’t been working for very long before	d).	she had been working too hard.
5.	The snow was very deep	e).	someone offered me a lift.
6.	When asked ma that question, I realized	f).	It had been snowing all night.
7.	They hadn’t been living there very long	g)	She hadn’t been crying.
8.	She was ill because	h).	when it was cancelled.
9.	They said they had only been waiting	i).	when they decided to move again.

Exercise 2.

Complete the conversation. Put in the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs.

Mary: Vicky:. Mary: Vicky: Mary: Vicky:

How was your job interview? Awful. I felt terribly nervous 1. ____ (I / worry) about it all week. And I was tired because 2.____ (I / work) on my project the night before. 3.____ (I / not look) forward to the interview at all. So what happened? The woman interviewing me was half an hour late because 4.____ (she / deal) with an unexpected problem, she said. 5.____ (I / wait) ages, and I’d got even more nervous. How did the interview go? Well, I tried to sound confident. 6.____ (I / read) a book that said that’s what you have to do in job interviews. But I don't know if I gave the right answers.

Exercise 3.

Make the following sentences negative.

Model:	It wasn’t a good time to invest.
Inflation had been falling for several months.
Inflation hadn’t been falling for several months.

1.	Before I changed jobs, I had been working on a plan to reduce production costs.
2.	We had been thinking about buying a new house and we decided to stay here.
3.	It had been snowing for a while before we left.
4.	We had been playing tennis for only a few minutes when it started raining.
5.	He was out of breath when he arrived because he had been running.
6.	She said she had been trying to call me all day.
7.	They said they had been shopping.
8.	I told you I had been looking for some new clothes.

Exercise 4.

Write questions to the following answers using the Past Perfect Continuous.

Model:	(how long) ____? How long had you been studying Turkish before you moved to Ankara?
– I had not been studying Turkish very long.

1.	(what) ____?	– Joe had been sitting in the corner all the evening.
2.	(how long) ____?	– The boys had been standing in a line for ten minutes.
3.	(who) ____?	– The girls had been planning a party before you returned
4.	(what) ____?	– Jack had been sleeping for ten hours before she rang up.
5.	(what) ____?	– Mary had been fishing for salmon since 2 o’clock.
6.	(who) ____?	– Max had been bothering Mary since he finished his report.
7.	(how long) ____?	– Max had been riding the bike all the morning.
8.	____?	– No, they have been going to the cinema when I saw them.

Exercise 5.

Correct the mistakes where necessary.

1.	I have been writing my exercises for two hours when my friend came.
2.	By three o'clock the new device had been worked for two hours.
3.	I had a headache because I had been working on the computer all day.
4.	She said she hadn’t smoking but the room smelled of cigarettes.
5.	She’s put the weight back but I think she’d lost it because she had been ran.
6.	We hadn’t been paying any attention so didn’t know what to do.
7.	The phone bill was huge. She had being calling her boyfriend in Australia.
8.	The kids were very hungry when they came in. They were running around in the garden all afternoon.
9.	They shouted for a few hours before their parents arrived.
10.	How long had been you waiting to get on the bus?

Exercise 6.

Work in pairs. Play a game. Find out who remembers more activities that he had been doing before 10 o’clock in the evening. Count the activities.

Model:

Before 10 o’clock in the evening I had been translating the article. I did not finish it. I was still translating at that moment.

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