What's the Difference? PAST Continuous & PAST PERFECT Continuous 🤔

Do you know when to use the past continuous & past perfect continuous? What's the difference? These English tenses are similar, but there are some differences you need to know if you want to use correct grammar!
The past continuous and perfect continuous are narrative tenses - perfect for telling stories in English! Learn and practice with me now, for perfect English grammar!

Answers to the practice questions ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

1. We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived.
2. Last Monday, at 8 am I was eating my breakfast.
3. They were walking/had been walking home when it started to rain.
4. We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours.
5. Jag was listening/had been listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door.
6. It was raining/had been raining so the ground was wet.

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00:00 Introduction
00:58 The past continuous sentence
02:14 The past perfect continuous sentence
04:30 Comparing past continuous and past perfect continuous
13:42 Choose which tense to use

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Also, the actions that happened between two past timings can be used in Past Perfect Continuous too. Here are the examples:
It had been raining from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday
I had been doing my home work from last Friday to Sunday.
By yesterday, it had been raining almost every day for a week.
By 2020, he had been in Paris for five years.

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Thank you very much Emma, I´m so thrilled listening to your different videos! In this exercise I´ve hesitated with the commas...
We had been waiting for the bus for hours when it finally arrived.
Last Monday, at 8 AM, I was eating my breakfast when... // Last Monday at 8AM I ate my breakfast.
They were walking home when suddenly it started to rain.
We had been living there for months before we finally met the neighbours.
Jag was listening to the radio when someone knocked on the door.

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