1. Past Perfect Progressive
Aswa Amanina bt Abu Shairi
Nur Farhana bt Mohd Room
Syazana Fatin bt Isahak
Atikah Islamiah bt Azman

2. What is past perfect progressive?


Used to show something that started in the past, and
continued up until another time in the past
The activity ends in the past

4. She had been
waiting for the
bus when it
suddenly
rained
I had been
watching the
television when
she arrived

5. 
According
How to use?
According to the
sequences of
events

6. I had been watching the television,
when the power went out.
She had been crying for
hours, when she heard the
news of her grandmother’s
death.

7. These verbs
are called
stative verbs
Some
verbs
usually do
not use ing
Know,
understan
d, owe,
possess,
etc

8. Rules to
remember
!
When using past perfect
progressive, do not use
the word ‘before’ because
past perfect progressive
already expresses one
activity happened before
another.

9. She had been reading the
book, before the light went out
She had been reading the
book, when the light went out

10. 
The past perfect continuous tense is like the past
perfect tense, but it expresses longer actions in the
past before another action in the past.

11. Siti had been waiting for
2 hours when Ali
arrived.
Example
We had been sleeping
for hours when the
alarm went on
Mom had been cooking
since 10 am when I
arrived home