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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)

B. 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.

Let’s Learn 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
Perfect Continuous Tenses
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. For example:

By the time they get here, we shall have been working for almost two full days.
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By December, Atul will have been running that store for four years.
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Formation of Sentences in Future Perfect Continuous Tense

The negative in future perfect continuous is formed by using will/shall + not + have been
+ present participle form of the main verb. For example:

He will not have been working in the factory for six months.
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