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III. Underline the past perfect continuous tense in each sentence.

1. We had been driving up the hill when the landslide started.

2. They had been cooking for an hour when the first guests started arriving.
3. Ria and Rita had been jogging on the pavement when they narrowly missed the falling tree.
4. Mother had been baking a cake when aunt called.

5. They had been painting the fence before the storm destroyed it all.
6. My friends had been asking me to write about my travels.

IV. Fill in the blanks with the past perfect continuous form of the verbs given in brackets.

1. Where _______________ you _______________ of building the hotel? (think)
2. How many of our soldiers _______________ the border? (guard)

3. Who _______________ the conversation? (record)
4. When _______________ you _______________ to go on a trip? (plan)
5. How _______________ you _______________ those kites? (make)
6. They _______________ all day so their legs were sore in the evening. (cycle)
7. I _______________ to call you for two days. (try)

8. They _______________ the trees and bushes since morning. (burn)
9. How long _______________ they _______________ for their demands? (shout)
10. Rupa _______________ French for several years. (study)

Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Formation of Sentences in Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

subject will/shall + have been present participle

You will have been waiting for more than an hour when she arrives.

I shall not have been waiting for more than an hour when she arrives.

The bride will have been getting ready since noon for the party in the
evening.

The future perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an action that will already have
started and will still be happening at a certain time in the future. Time expressions such as for
10 minutes, since 9 o’clock, etc. are used to describe the length of time that the activity has been
going on.

The future perfect continuous is formed by using will/shall + have been + present participle form
of the main verb.

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