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G Forms of Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
Question
I, we had I, we
you ’d been you been

he, she had not speaking. had he, she speaking?
it, they hadn’t it, they

G Uses of Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
· It is used to express an action that began before a definite moment in the past,
had continued up to that moment and was still in progress at that moment or

had recently finished.
Read the following examples:

1. He had been watching TV for four hours when I reached his house.
2. Naresh had been working on his biology project when I went to see him.

G Form of Used to .
Positive Statement : He used to sing.

Negative Statement : He never used to sing.
Interrogative Statement : Did he use to sing?

Moreover, this form is not preferred now. It is more common to make a statement
followed by a question tag.

Read the following example:
He used to dance, didn’t he ?

G Use of used to .
· It is used to suggest that something was true for some period of time in the past
but stopped being true later.

Read the following example:
Komal used to arrive late. (She doesn’t arrive late now.)

A. Fill in the blanks with the simple past tense of the verbs given in the brackets.
1. I was very thirsty. I _____________ the water very quickly. (drink)

2. We couldn’t afford to keep our car, so we _____________ it. (sell)
3. How did you learn to swim? My father _____________ me. (teach)

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