Class Objectives 2/5

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Class Objectives 2/5

• Review previous homework (112,113,114,115,116)
• Assignment for the past perfect tense
• Lecture on past perfect continuous tense
• Assignment for the past perfect continuous
• Review study guide

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REVIEWPast Perfect Tense

• When do we use the Past Perfect?
• When 2 or more things happened in the past and we
  want to explain which of them happened first in
  the past.
• When we arrived at the airport, the flight had
  already left.
• What ever happened first is where we use the past
  perfect tense.

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Forms

• (subject) (helping verb) (main verb in the
  p.p)
• Positive Statements
• I had finished.
• You had started.
• We had left.
• They had eaten.
• He had brought.
• She had broken.
• It had rung.

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Forms

• (subject)(helping verb)(not)(main verb in the
  p.p)
• Negative Statements
• I had not finished.
• You had not finished.
• We had not finished.
• They had not finished.
• He had not finished.
• She had not finished.
• It had not finished.

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Forms

• (Helping verb)(subject)(main verb/pp)
• Questions
• Had I finished?
• Had you finished?
• Had we finished?
• Had they finished?
• Had he finished?
• Had she finished?
• Had it finished?

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Your Turn

• 1. Get into your groups
• 2. Ask each person 2 things they did before they
  started college
• 3. You have 3 minutes!!!
• Example M/V What had you done before you
  started college?
• F/V I had had a full-time job.
• M/V What else had you done
  before
• college?
• F/V I had visited Peru.

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Tell me about the person you interviewed.

• Example M/V What had you done before college?
• F/V I had had a full-time job.
• M/V What else had you done
  before
• college?
• F/V I had visited Peru.
• When she started college, she had already visited
  Peru.
• She had already had a full-time job, when she
  started college.

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How do we make the Past Perfect Continuous Tense?

• The structure of the past perfect continuous
  tense is

Subject ( ) auxiliary verb HAVE ( ) auxiliary verb BE ( ) main verb
He/She/It/I/We/ You/They conjugated in simple past tense past participle present participle
had been base ing
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Past Perfect Continuous Tense

• We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show
  that something started in the past and continued
  up until another time in the past. The duration
  of the continuous action is expressed with for
• USE 1 Duration Before Something in the Past

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Past Perfect Continuous Tense

• Examples
• 1) They had been talking for over an hour when
• Scott arrived.
• 2) She had been working at that factory for three
• years when it went out of business.
• 3) How long had you been waiting to get on the
  train?
• 4) Scott wanted to sit down because he had been
• standing all day at work.
• 5) A How long had you been studying English when
• you moved to America?
• B I had not been studying English very long.

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• Use 1 Duration of a Past Action
• The main use of the Past Perfect Continuous is
  to express actions or situations that were in
  progress before some other actions or situations.
• The boys had been sleeping for half an hour
  when we arrived home.
• I had been dating Michelle for 3 years before
  we got married.

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• Use 2 Showing Cause
• Use the Past Perfect Continuous to show cause
  of an action or situation in the past.
• John was in detention because he had been
  misbehaving.
• The road was wet because it had been raining.
• I had to go on a diet because I had been
  eating too much sugar.
• Jessica got tired because she had been lying
  in the sun too long.

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Your Turn

• 1) Get into your groups and ask each other these
  questions. You have 3 minutes!
• A) Tell me something you did before you turned
  15?
• B) Tell me something you did before you went to
  school today?
• Now write sentences that explain what you have
  learned from the people you interviewed.
• Use the past perfect continuous and the simple
  past.

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