English 3: Entry 3

Past Perfect and Past Perfect continuos

In English the past perfect and past perfect continuous for me are the most difficult thing in the past tense, I found they hard because I do not really know how and when I have to use they also is hard to include those tenses in a conversation. I am going to show you how I study this and which materials I used for a better comprehension of this topic.

First we need to make a line and keep the order always in our mind.

Past perfect -------PPC-------- Simple past ------- P Prog---- Present

_______l_______________________l_______________________l__

PPC means Past Perfect Continuous had it has those lines because is an action that started in the past continued up until another time in the past.

Another thing to keep in mind is the construction of these past tenses:

Past perfect =

Had + past participle

Past Perfect Continuous=

Had been + present participle

We can see many ways to study this I am giving to you some examples.

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/jumbled-tenses-past-perfect-continuous-2.htm in the next page you can play a game and this game is about to create sentences when you are done you can check it out.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/past-tense/past-perfect also in this one you have to make sentences