Past Perfect Progressive

This is one of my English notes in class in 2008, I decided to rewriting my notebooks in this blog this is one of my notes, I try to remind and practice just for fun and because need to clean my stuffs.

 By last thank

• I hadn't celebrate the thanksgiving by the last year I had celebrated one.
• I had never gone down town Chicago by the beginning of last year.
• Dorothy didn't want to leave her car on the street because there had been a few break-ins.
• The principal was angry because someone had written on the classroom wall.
• Debbie had left her keys in the car, so someone stole it.
• The criminal had dropped his driver's license, so the police knew his name.

Sudden quickly happen unexpected

• The security guard stopped the woman because she had taken some jewelry.

Past Perfect Progressive

The form of the past perfect progressive is had been or had not been followed by the present participle.

• I had been waiting for ever and hour I was angry.
• We hadn't been talking for very long. All of a sudden he got angry and he got angry and left.

Perfect             --  had been      |  Present

Progressive      --  hadn't been   |  participle

Use the past perfect progressive to talk about and action in the past that continued for a period of time before another event in the past.

• Officer Diaz had been working for the Miami Police Department for twenty year when she retired.
• (She worked for twenty years. The she retired)

Use the past progressive to stress that an activity was in progress when something else happened.

• I was thinking about calling the police when they called me.
• (At the moment when the police called me, I was thinking about calling them)

 The class finished after some questions and dialogues with my classmates, the teacher gave us some minutes to practice the past perfect progressive.