Past Perfect Continuous Tense. The past perfect continuous tense is used to describe the action that was not completed by a certain date or time in the past. The past perfect continuous tense is constructed using had been the verbs present participle root -ing.
The formula for writing the past perfect continuous tense is. When I arrived Ram had been waiting for two hours. This tense is used to describe actions that were going on in the past up until another action in the past happened.
The past perfect continuous tense is constructed using had been the verbs present participle root -ing.
You will always use the same formula. The past perfect progressive or past perfect continuous also known as the pluperfect progressive or pluperfect continuous combines perfect progressive aspect with past tense. We can say that we add the idea of the past continuous tense to the idea of the past perfect tense. The past perfect continuous tense is used to describe the action that was not completed by a certain date or time in the past.