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Communication Skills-II

notes Negative sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + not + Past participle
I/a boy etc. hadn’t/ had not eaten/given/gone

9.2.4 Past Perfect continuous tense

These sentences are used in situations such as:

1. Duration of a past action up to a certain point in the past

Example: 1. I had been running for an hour when it started raining.
2. Era put on weight because she had been eating too much sugar.
2. Third conditional sentences and reported speech

Example: 1. He said he wasn’t tired because he hadn’t been preparing his car.
2. Mariam said she had never been dancing so much in one day.

Form: Positive sentences:

subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + verb + ing
I/a boy etc. had been eating/swimming, etc.
Questions (interrogative sentences):
auxiliary verb + subject + auxiliary verb + verb + ing + ?

Had I/a boy etc. been eating/swimming, etc.
Negative sentences:
subject + auxiliary verb + not + auxiliary verb + verb + ing
I/a boy etc. hadn’t been going/swimming, etc.

self assessment

Fill in the blank with the right word:
5. By the time the troops arrive, the combat group ………………… spent several weeks
waiting. (will have/would have)
6. Before the budget cuts, the students ………………… in many extracurricular activities.
(had been participating/had participated)
7. The children were soaking wet. I knew they ………………… in the lake. (had swam/had
been swimming)
8. If I …………… working on that project, we would have been successful. (were/had been)
9. What ………………… doing when the war broke out. (had you been/were you)
10. Many people are starving while others ……………… fighting overweight. (had been/are)

9.3 future tense

As the name suggests, future tense is used to present the actions that are going to take place in
future.

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