Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense contoh kalimat

Past Perfect Continuous Tense Rumus

Past Perfect Continuous Tense adalah suatu bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk mengungkapkan suatu aksi (dengan durasi waktu tertentu) telah selesai pada suatu titik waktu tertentu di masa lalu.

Baca Juga: Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb had dan been dan present participle. Secara umum past perfect continuous tense hanya terjadi pada aksi berupa dynamic atau action verb, tidak stative verb karena umumnya hanya dynamic verb yang memiliki bentuk continuous.

Rumus Past Perfect Continuous Tense
+ Subject + had been + verb ing
- Subject + had not been + verb ing
? had + Subject + been + verb ing

Example
+ Gusti had been walking (Gusti sudah berjalan)
- Gusti had not been walking (Gusti belum berjalan)

? Had Gusti been walking? (Apakah Gusti sudah berjalan?)

+ The labors had been demonstrating (Tenaga kerja telah berdemonstrasi)
- The labors hadn’t been demostrating (Tenaga kerja tidak melakukan demostrasi)
? Had the labors been demonstrating? (Apakah pekerja sudah berdemontrasi?)

Baca Juga: Past Continuous Tense

Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense
1. Past perfect continuous tense untuk mengekspresikan aksi yang panjang di masa lampau sebelum aksi lainnya terjadi.

Example
- When the guests came, we had been waiting for an minutes. (Ketika para tamu datang, kita telah menunggu selama satu menit.)
- She had been standing in front of the door for thirthy minutes before it was opened. (Dia telah berdiri di depan pintu selama tiga puluh menit sebelum dibukakan.)

2. Past perfect continuous tense untuk memberitahukan berapa lama sesuatu terjadi (period of time) atau sampai waktu tertentu di masa lampau.

Example

- He was annoyed since he had been waiting for 3 hours on the bus station. (Dia kesal karena telah menunggu selama 3 jam di halte bus.)

- By the time the teacher came, the students had been reading a half part of the text. (Pada waktu guru datang, para siswa telah membaca separuh bagian dari teks.)
- I had been working with my computer all day, and all I wanted to do was eat some noodle. (Saya telah bekerja dengan komputer sepanjang hari, dan yang ingin saya lakukan adalah makan mie.)

Baca Juga: Present Continuous Tense

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