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Read the sentence given below.

• Lately, I have not been feeling so well.

¾ To make an interrogative sentence, we start the question with have/has before the subject
followed by been and the present participle (-ing) form of the main verb.

Read the sentence given below.
• Have you been watching the news lately?

Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is used:

¾ to describe an action that started in the past and continued up to a given time in the past.
Read the sentence given below.

• He had lived in Gujarat all his life.
Sentence Formation in Past Perfect Tense

¾ To make a positive sentence, we add had before the past participle form of the main verb.

Read the sentence given below.
• We had walked a good way up the hill when we saw the shortcut.

¾ To make a negative sentence, we add had not before the past participle form of the main
verb.

Read the sentence given below.
• I had not learnt Japanese before coming to Tokyo.

¾ To make an interrogative sentence, we add had before the subject followed by the
past participle form of the main verb.

Read the sentence given below.
• Had they seen such a spectacle in their country?

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

The past perfect continuous tense is used:

¾ to describe an action that started in the past and was still in progress when a second action
began in the past.
Read the sentence given below.

• They had been talking for an hour when Teena arrived.

Sentence Formation in Past Perfect Continuous Tense

¾ To make a positive sentence, we add had been before the present participle form of the
main verb.

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