What's the Difference? PAST Continuous & PAST PERFECT Continuous 🤔
Do you know when to use the past continuous & past perfect continuous? What's the difference? These English tenses are similar, but there are some differences you need to know if you want to use correct grammar!
The past continuous and perfect continuous are narrative tenses - perfect for telling stories in English! Learn and practice with me now, for perfect English grammar!
Answers to the practice questions ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
1. We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived.
2. Last Monday, at 8 am I was eating my breakfast.
3. They were walking/had been walking home when it started to rain.
4. We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours.
5. Jag was listening/had been listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door.
6. It was raining/had been raining so the ground was wet.
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00:00 Introduction
00:58 The past continuous sentence
02:14 The past perfect continuous sentence
04:30 Comparing past continuous and past perfect continuous
13:42 Choose which tense to use
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Thank you very much Emma, I´m so thrilled listening to your different videos! In this exercise I´ve hesitated with the commas... We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived. Last Monday, at 8 AM, I was eating my breakfast when... // Last Monday at 8AM I ate my breakfast. They were walking home when suddenly it started to rain. We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours. Jag was listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door.
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Great job, Emma! Thank you for your profound lesson! Also, the actions that happened between two past timings can be used in Past Perfect Continuous too. Here are the examples: It had been raining from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday I had been doing my home work from last Friday to Sunday. By yesterday, it had been raining almost every day for a week. By 2020, he had been in Paris for five years.
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Hi Emma, An interesting and informative lesson about past continuous and past perfect continuous. I appreciate your efforts and revised my information about these both tenses. Thanks and regards,
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Thank you Emma! it isn't easy to grasp the difference between these two tenses but as usual you managed to convey it. As I understood we use the past continuos for a progressive action in a specific moment while we use the past perfect continuos to focus on the continuity of an action that started in a not specified time. I suppose it's the same difference we find between present continuos and present perfect continuos. Thnak you again.
Present continuous and present perfect continues are easier and more understandable
Emma explains grammar really well! I know not a few English teachers who are native speakers yet always have a problem with these tenses. But here in this video what Emma tried to explain using the following two example sentences really confuses me: she said the cooking was incomplete and the food wasn't ready in the sentence "Julia had been cooking for hours when the guests arrived," while she said the hard work was done in the sentence "she had been working very hard and the presentation was finally done." So does the past perfect continuous show an ongoing action was complete or not before the second action took place? Hopefully someone can help me with this.
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when mother arrived home, kids were watching TV in the living room. I had been playing game for 15 minutes when the rain stopped.
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1_had been waiting 2_wz eating 3_were walking _4_had been living 5_was listening 6_had been raining Thank you teacher 👌
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The answers 1 had been walking 2 was eating 3 were walking 4 had been living 5 was listening 6 was raining Thanks ms Emma for your useful lessons ( Adel )
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number 1 should be "had been waiting" not walking
1. had been waiting 2.was eating 3.were walking 4.had been living 5.was listening 6.was raining / had been raining (Both are correct.)
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1. We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived. 2. Last Monday, at 8 am I was eating my breakfast. 3. They were waking home when suddenly it started to rain. 4. We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbors. 5. Jag was listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door. 6. It had been raining so the ground was wet. There is one question, Emma. No.6 could be Past Continuous? I just thought it also makes sense. I look forward to your next lesson!
It depends whether the task has been completed or still going on
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we had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived. Last Monday, at 8am I was eating my breakfast. They were walking home when suddenly it started to rain. we had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours. Jag was listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door. it had been raining, so the ground was wet.
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I finally understood how to use both thank you so much 😊💕💕Emma xxx
1) We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived. (Past perfect continuous because a period of time was specified for the continuing action in the past) 2) Last Monday, at 8 am I ate my breakfast. (Past continuous because that action was in progress at a an accurate moment in the past) 3) They were walking home when suddenly it started to rain. ( here 2 actions took place in the same time and the first action is in progress. then we need the past continuous) 4) We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours. ( a continuous action in the past where we specified a period of time. then the past perfect continuous might be correct) 5) Jag was listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door. (the first action is in progress and both two actions took place in the same time) 6) It had been raining so the ground was wet. (because the ground was wet is the consequence of a continuous action in the past) Thanks for helping.
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I am still struggling with the differences. Anyone could explain me to overcome. ?
2)... I was eating/having my breakfast ❗
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Brilliant work! It looks like you've already nailed it and have a good understanding of these tenses! ✨😉 (and yes, in Australia we spell it as 'neighbours')
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Great explanation about Past Continuous & Past Perfect Continuous....Thanks a Lot.
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