Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous

1. The "past perfect continuous" corresponds to the "present perfect continuous" but refers to a time before the recent past. As with the "present perfect continuous", we are more interested in the process than the result.

2. The "past perfect continuous" is made up of two elements: the "past perfect" of the verb to be (= had been) + the "present participle" of the main verb (root + ing) .

3. The Affirmative Form Sujeto + “had” + “been” + verbo+ing…

4. The Negative Form Sujeto + “had” + “not” + “been” + verbo+ing…

5. Examples  I had been studying. Lindsay had been working at the store since 2005 when it closed. You had been working.

6. Examples I had not been working. You had not been teaching me anything. They hadn't been waiting for two hours.

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8. The Past Perfect Simple is a tense that refers to the past. Exactly, it refers to actions that occurred before others that took place in the past; that is, it indicates that one event occurred before another in the past.

9. The negative Form  Subject + had + not + past participle ...

10. The Past Perfect Simple is made up of two parts: the past tense of the verb to have (had) + the Past Participle of the main verb.

11. The affirmative form It has a very simple structure: Subject + had + past participle ...

12. Examples I had worked. You had gone. He had read the book that you gave me yesterday. 

13. Examples I had not worked. She had not told me what you said. They had not lost my book.