Pour conjuguer un verbe au past perfect continuous tense, on conjugue l’auxiliaire avoir « to have » au past simple « had », plus le past participle de l’auxiliaire être « to be », « been » et le participe présent du verbe à conjuguer en ajoutant le « ing » à la fin du verbe.
Les différentes formes : Exemple du verbe To wait
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Forme affirmative
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Forme interrogative
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Forme négative
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NB :
L’on peut écrire had not ou hadn’t (forme contractée)
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I had been waiting
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Had I been waiting ?
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I had not been waiting
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You had been waiting
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Had you been waiting ?
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You had not been waiting
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He had been waiting
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Had he been waiting ?
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He had not been waiting
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She had been waiting
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Had she been waiting ?
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She had not been waiting
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It had been waiting
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Had it been waiting ?
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It had not been waiting
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We had been waiting
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Had we been waiting ?
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We had not been waiting
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You had been waiting
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Had you been waiting ?
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You had not been waiting
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They had been waiting
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Had they been waiting ?
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They had not been waiting
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NB:
- L’indicateur du past perfect continuous tense est for…
La valeur d’emploi du past perfect continuous tense
On emploie le past perfect continuous tense pour :
- Dire pendant combien de temps un certain évènement durait avant qu’un autre ne se produise. Mais ces deux événements se situent dans le passé.
Ex : They had been waiting for 1 hour when the train arrived (ils avaient attendu pendant une heure quand le train arriva).
EXERCICE
Use the past perfect continuous tense to conjugate those following verbs.
- Tina needed a break because she (to study)…………………………all morning.
- Jeanne (to learn)……………………………………………..Japanese for 10 years before she moved to Japan.
- I did not go to the party last night because I (to work)………………all day.
- He felt fit for the race because he (to train)………………………….a lot.
- When I went to see Mrs ACHONCHA, her colleague told me that she (to speak)…………………………………….on the phone for two hours.
- You got sick because you (to eat)……………………….the whole time.
- The singer (to live) …………………………………………………in this town for ten years when he moved to Paris.
- After you left, I ……………………………(to type) for more than two hours in the office;
- The girls ……………………………………… (To move) to this place for long.
- I ……………………………………. (To wait) for you to call me for less than ten minutes.
