Folyamatos befejezett múlt

A folyamatos befejezett múlt funkciói

A folyamatos befejezett múlt (past perfect continuous) a folyamatos befejezett jelennek (present perfect continuous) felel meg, de egy olyan időre utal, amelyik korábban történt, mint a 'jelen előtti pillanat'. A folyamatos befejezett múlt esetén jobban érdekel bennünket a folyamat.

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Példák

Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?
We had been trying to open the door for five minutes when Jane found her key.
It had been raining hard for several hours and the streets were very wet.
Her friends had been thinking of calling the police when she walked in.

Ezt a formát használjuk a függő beszédben is. A folyamatos múlt (past continuous) és a folyamatos befejezett jelen (present perfect continuous) megfelelője a direkt beszédben:

Jane said, "I have been gardening all afternoon." = Jane said she had been gardening all afternoon.
When the police questioned him, John said, "I was working late in the office that night." = When the police questioned him, John told them he had been working late in the office that night.

A folyamatos befejezett múlt formálása

A folyamatos befejezett múlt két részből áll: a to be ige befejezett múlt formája (had been) + a fő ige folyamatos melléknévi igenév fomája (present participle), (tő + ing).

Alany	had been	ige + ing
I	had been	walking
Állító
She	had been	trying
Tagadó
She	hadn't been	sleeping
Kérdő
Had you	been	eating?
Kérdő tagadó
Hadn't they	been	living?

To buy, folyamatos befejezett múlt

Állító	Tagadó	Kérdő
I had been buying	I hadn't been buying	Had I been buying?
You had been buying	You hadn't been buying	Had you been buying?
She had been buying	She hadn't been buying	Had she been buying?
We had been buying	We hadn't been buying	Had we been buying?
They had been buying	They hadn't been buying	Had they been buying?