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Past Perfect Simple Vs Past Perfect Continuous Result or Duration?

This document discusses the difference between the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous tenses and when to use each. The past perfect simple is used to express completed actions and results, while the past perfect continuous is used to express actions that were ongoing or in progress for a period of time in the past (duration). Examples are provided to illustrate using each tense to talk about how long an action has been occurring versus what the result or completion of an action was.

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Past Perfect Simple Vs Past Perfect Continuous Result or Duration?

This document discusses the difference between the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous tenses and when to use each. The past perfect simple is used to express completed actions and results, while the past perfect continuous is used to express actions that were ongoing or in progress for a period of time in the past (duration). Examples are provided to illustrate using each tense to talk about how long an action has been occurring versus what the result or completion of an action was.

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Past perfect simple vs Past perfect continuous

Result or duration?
Do you want to express what has happened so far or how long an action has been going on yet?
Past Perfect Simple

Past Perfect Continuous

Result (what / how much / how often)

Duration (how long)

He had played football for two hours.

He had been playing football for two hours.

2. Put the verbs into the correct form (past perfect continuous).
- We .. (sleep) for 12 hours when he
woke us up.
- They (wait) at the station for 90
minutes when the train finally arrived.
- We (look for) her ring for two
hours and then we found it in the bathroom.
- How long (learn / she) English before
she went to London?
- Frank Sinatra caught the flu because he
(sing) in the rain too long.
- He . (drive) less than an hour
when he ran out of petrol.
- They were very tired in the evening because they ...
(help) on the farm all day.
- I .. (not / work) all day; so I
wasn't tired and went to the disco at night.

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