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Simple Past Perfect Continuous Tense |
Simple Past
Perfect Contionous Tense
Digunakan
untuk menyatakan suatu kejadian /peristiwa
yang telah dimulai dan masih sedang berlangsung ketika suatu kejadian
lain terjadi dimasa lampau. Peristiwa yang terjadi kemudian dinyatakan dalam
bentuk Simple past tense.
Contoh
:
When I came home last night, She had
been sleeping for an hour
( ketika saya pulang tadi malam, ia
sudah sedang tidur selama sejam)
Structure
: Subject + had been + -ING form
Contoh
-
When
he came here in 1980, we had been living here for 2 years
-
Jhon
had been waiting for some time before Mary Arrived
-
By two
o’clock yesterday, I had been studying for 2 hours
-
They
had been working for hours before I got there
-
How
long had you been waiting before they arrived?
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