What is the difference between the PAST CONTINUOUS and the PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS?

In this lesson learn the difference between the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous. So, the difference between the cat was sleeping and the cat had been sleeping. With lots of example sentences and a quiz at the end, learn how to use these Engish tenses with confidence for all your writing and speaking needs.

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[NamNguyenVan-bzwx]

Hello Sarah. Nice to meet you again.
Thank you for the very useful lesson!
Thanks to your explanation, from now on I understand the difference between the past continuos tense and the past perfect continuous tense. This has been a confusing thing for long time for me.
Here is my reply to your question.
The correct answer is as follows:
Rob had been living in the same house for five years before he redecorated the sitting room.
See you soon.

[MasambaKalaba-xooi]

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[gregoriussudaryono]

Thank you for telling the defference between past continuous tense and past perfect tense, dear teacher. 🙏 9:41

[loiomgirldirectioner]

Thanks a million for the clear explanation

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[ManFromMars]

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[tuba]

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[honeygamerop]

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[mohamedfadaly]

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[raghavlavaniya]

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[focus]

Thank you Mam you help me a lot to understand.

[gopalpakanati]

B is the correct answer, Ma'm., , 👍

[aakankshaupadhyay]

It was my first day of class. I finally found the right room. The room was already full of students. On one side of the room, the students were speaking to each other in Spanish. The others were speaking Japanese and some were conversing in Arabic. It sounds like the United Nations. Some of the students, however, were sitting quietly by themselves. I chose an empty seat in the last row and sat down. In a few minutes, the teacher walked into the room and all the multilingual conversation stopped.

I wonder if somebody could help me with the grammatical errors here!

[odyssey]

Thank you for the lesson.
I have a question.
Can we say using the past simple:
We stoped by the house where my mother lived for see…. ?

[noorahmadhabibi]

Hello Dear Teacher

"This is intended for advance student"

The above sentence is simple present passive or simple past passive or simple infinitive passive?

[claristajosephine]

i think B is correct because there's duration of the action, but i also think A is correct because Rob will still living in the same house after he redecorated :(((( the second sentence with "HAD BEEN" means he no longer live in the same house..

[Reginitsa]

The second one is the right one because there are two actions.

[sarthakac]

Hello Ma'am, Which tense should be used in the following sentence? Past perfect or past simple?
> Teacher: Why were you absent for so long?
Sam: I been/had gone/went) to a one week English Literature Workshop conducted by ELS.