A Short Intro To Past Perfect Continuous Tense
This is an amazing tense to learn if you want to make your English strong and touch the highest peak of excellence. You must gain the full knowledge about this tense. You need to make the sentences for this tense by yourself. If you do not get yourself able to make sentences on your own for this tense, your English will not be complete, and you will miss the excellence somewhere in the journey of the English. Perhaps, you will understand this tense through this example. For example, you were walking alone on the road. A cobbler was mending shoes alongside the road you passed by. After a few moments, you reached home, and your mother asked you ifobserved anything on the road. Now you will tell your mother that the cobbler was mending shoes, and still it would be too, or it is. This tense is used to explain all this in this way.
Probably, you will learn all about this tense, perhaps in Urdu, when we will explain to you about this tense and each and everything in full detail. Stick with us, and we are going to engulf this tense utterly. Let us explain what you will acquire in this article about this tense, as this article is specially staunch to the past perfect continuous tense.
- Urdu elucidation
- Remembrance of this tense in Urdu
- Where was this tense brought into play?
- A training at the end
- A PDF version
Definition in Urdu
ماضی میں مخصوص وقت سے پہلے اگر کوئی کام ہوتا رہا ہو تو اس کو ماضی مکمل جاری سے ظاہر کرتے ہیں۔ مثلاً “کل صبح جب میں علی سے ملا تو وہ دو گھنٹے سے میرا انتظار کر رہا تھا۔”
Recognition in Urdu
جملے کے آخر میں ‘تا رہا تھا، ‘تی رہی تھی، ‘تے رہیں تھے، وغیرہ آتا ہے۔ مثلاً ‘وہ گانا گاتا رہا تھا۔’
How To Make Sentences?
Simple Sentences
Structure
Subject + Helping Verb + First Form of Verb + ing + Object
I/We/You/They/he/She/It/Singular Noun/Plural Noun + had been + eating.
Negative Sentences
Structure
Subject + Helping Verb + not + First Form of Verb + Object
I/We/You/They/He/She/It/Singular Noun/Plural Noun + had not been + eating.
Interrogative Sentences
Structure
Helping Verb (Had) + Subject + been + First Form of Verb + ing + Object
Had + I/We/You/They/He/She/It/Singular Noun/Plural Noun + been + eating?
Negative-Interrogative Sentences
Structure
Helping Verb (Had) + Subject + not been + First Form of Verb + ing + Object
Had + I/We/You/They/He/She/It/Singular Noun/Plural Noun + not been + eating?
مندرجہ ذیل جگہوں پر استعمال ہوتا ہے۔
Where is it used?
ایسا کام جو ماضی میں ایک خاص وقت سے پہلے شروع ہوا اور اس خاص وقت تک جاری رہا ہو۔
(a) When I joined the college, Mr.Maqsood had been teaching there for three years.
Exercise
Now, you have learnt this tense almost completely. With the knowledge you have gained in this article, it is time to put all your gathered knowledge from this article about this tense or any source you have used into this exercise. Solve this exercise and write your answers in the comments. We will check your comments and let you know whether your answers are completely correct or incorrect. It will be fun. Join us in the exercise. We are waiting for you.
- She said that it _________________ since morning. (rain)
- I asked her if she ____________ the class for two days. (attend)
- She said that she ___________ the bike for an hour. (ride)
- She asked me how long I ____________ for her. (wait)
- He looked tired as he _____________ for ten hours. (work)
- I asked him how long he ______________ glasses. (wear)
- Her hair was wet; she _____________ in the pool. (bathe)
- She said that she ________________ to contact me. (try)
- He said that they ______________ to settle the matter for an hour. (try)
- I told her that I ________________ the exam for two years. (take)
PDF-Version
As far as you have reached, we have a surprise for you that will help you to clear your concepts you are having in your mind regarding this tense. If the above reading about this tense in this article did not provide you with the amount of knowledge that was necessary, absolutely, do not worry; this PDF will help you to learn a lot about this tense. In this PDF, everything that is not pictured above is given. You will get a damn perfect understanding about this tense.
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