Unit 23 - Past Perfect Continuous (I had been doing)

Unit 23

Past Perfect Continuous

(I had been doing)

(a) Past Perfect Continuous образуется при помощи глагола to be в Past Perfect + Participle 1 (had been doing). Past Perfect Continuous может обозначать действие, которое завершилось перед другим действием в прошлом.

- Although the sun was shining, it was still cold as it had been

raining hard for two hours.

- He felt tired when he came home as he had been playing football.

(b) Past Perfect Continuous также употребляется,чтобы показать, как долго что-либо происходило перед тем, как что-то еще случилось.

- She had been sleeping for two hours when we returned.

- It had been raining for an hour when I left home.

(c) Past Perfect Continuous (had been doing)-

это прошедшее время от Present Perfect

Continuous (have been doing).

Сравните:

(d) Сравните формы Past Perfect Continuous

(had been doing) и Past Continuous (was/were doing):

She had been sleeping for three hours when we returned.

(есть есть указание на то, как долго продолжалось действие).

She was sleeping when we returned.

(нет указания на то, как долго продолжалось действие).

(e) Некоторые глаголы (например, know) не могут

использоваться в форме Continuous.

Смотри список этих глаголов в Unit 3b.

Unit 22 - Past perfect (I have done) - (I had done)

Unit 22

Past perfect (I have done) - (I had done)

(a) Past Perfect Tense образуется при помощи had + past participle (seen, gone, opened, written, looked, и т.д.).

Список причастий прошедшего времени от неправильных глаголов (past participle) смотри в Appendix2. Мы используем Past Perfect для того, чтобы показать:

1.что действие было завершено до определенного момента в прошлом:

- I had written a letter by two o'clock.

2.что одно действие было завершено перед другим действием в прошлом:

- She had already left when I came.

- I didn't know what I should write. I had never written letters before.

(b) Past Perfect (I had done) - это прошедшее время от Present Perfect (I have done).

Cравните:

(c) Сравните Past Perfect и Past Simple:

- Was Mary ready to go to the cinema when you came to her?

- Yes, she had been ready by the moment.

- Jack wasn't in when I phoned him. He was in his office.

- Jack had just got home when I phoned him. He had been in his office.