ESL Grammar WorksheetsPast Perfect Continuous for Kids & Teens

Past Perfect Continuous for Kids & Teens

Dive into Past Perfect Continuous with this ESL worksheet designed for kids and teens. This worksheet helps learners understand how to express ongoing actions in the past, highlighting duration before another event. It includes a variety of exercises such as matching sentence halves, completing sentences, and unscrambling words. Practice the structure, time expressions, and perfect your understanding of the Past Perfect Continuous tense with engaging activities! Perfect for kids and teens at a B1/B2 level.

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The Past Perfect Continuous tense is used to show that an action was ongoing in the past before another past action happened. It emphasizes the duration of the first action. Structure: Subject + had been + verb(-ing) Example: She had been studying for three hours before the test started. Conditions for use: 1. The action must be completed before another action in the past. 2. Use it to show the duration of the first action (often with "for" or "since"). 3. Common time expressions: for, since, before, when. Example of time expressions: - She had been working there for five years when she got promoted. - He had been living in London since 2010 before he moved to New York.

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