Part of the The Big Bang Theory: The bath item gift pack

Had been + -ing

Lesson 3 · Grammar
B2 level
12 min
The Big Bang Theory

This lesson comes with the pack.

A long shopping trip in a bath shop shows what the past perfect continuous is for. Learn had been + -ing for an activity before a past moment, hadn't been for a negative and Had ... been for a question. Then choose between it, the past perfect and the past continuous.

Past perfect continuous

I can tell a story with a twist and make clear what had been going on before it.

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