ACTIVITY 3

Autores
ADRIANA LEGUIZAMÓN

Tutor
JIMMY TORRIJOS LEAL

CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO DE DIOS

ADMINISTRACION DE EMPRESAS
Bogotá, Colombia
Mayo de 2020
 CONTENT
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 3
1. ACTIVITY 3: PAST PERFECT AND PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS ......................................... 4
2. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................... 4
 INTRODUCTION

The "past perfect" refers to a time before the recent past. It is used to indicate that one event
occurred before another in the past. It does not matter which of the events is mentioned first,
because the verb tense makes clear the temporal order in which they occurred. The continuous
perfect past is used to speak of a continuous action in the past that started and continued until a
later past action occurred.
 1. ACTIVITY 3: PAST PERFECT AND PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

PAST PERFECT
I had worked for my uncle in the cigar store
I had cooked something special for my family
He had finished reading his recipe book
I had played this game several times, I love crash bandicop
I had seen three seasons of this television show, the paper house is the best
My cousin had gone to Cuba to study medicine
I had forgotten how to do math exercises but I'm already practicing

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

At that time I had been studying mandarin
I had been cleaning the house all day, it was beautiful
It had been raining all day until the sun came up
We had been working hard for the research project
My children had been playing outside
I had been driving all day, I'm tired
I had been running for forty minutes when they called me from work

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2. CONCLUSION

Past perfect continuous, or past perfect progressive, allows identifying the progression of an action in
the past. It is formed with the past tense of the auxiliary verb has, the participle of the verb be, and the
gerund of the main verb: had + been + -ing.
The past perfect tense is used to describe: actions that ended before another past action or event
Facts or experiences that were true before a past action or event.