Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense digunakan untuk mengungkapkan suatu tindakan yang dimulai di masa lalu dan berlangsung sampai tindakan lain yang di masa lalu.

Penggunaan :
1. Durasi tindakan masa lalu sampai titik waktu tertentu di masa lalu juga
2. kalimat pengandaian (Conditional Sentence) Type III
If it hadn't been raining, we would have played football
3. Kalimat Tak Langsung (reported speech)
Joely : I was crying
Bruce : Joely said she had been crying
Bruce : Joely mengatakan bahwa dia telah menangis.

Rumus :

Positif (+)
- Subject + had + been + verb-ing + object

Negatif (-)
- Subject + had + not + been + verb-ing + object

Tanya (?)
- Had + subject + been + object?

Contoh - Past Perfect Continuous Tense :
He had been living in Jakarta about ten years (+)
- Dia telah tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10 tahun
He had not been living in Jakarta about ten years (-)
- Dia belum tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10 tahun
Had he been living in Jakarta about ten years? (?)
- Apakah dia telah tinggal di Jakarta selama 10 tahun?

Perbedaan antara Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous adalah :

Present Perfect Continuous mengungkapkan tindakan yang terus berlanjut sampai sekarang, sedangkan Past Perfect Continuous tidak.
He has been playing for two hours
- Dia telah bermain selama 2 jam (dia masih bermain atau baru saja selesai)
He had been playing for two hours when arrived
- Dia telah bermain selama 2 jam ketika saya tiba (sekarang tidak sedang bermain).