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Practice Time 2

Change the following sentences into past perfect continuous tense.
1. They were waiting for me.
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2. My brother is living in Agra.
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3. I was playing cricket.
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4. It was raining when you came.
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5. The students are studying in the library.
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Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The future perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an action that will have started in
the past and will still be happening at a certain time in the future. For example:
At 5 o’clock, I shall have been waiting for 30 minutes.
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Formation of Sentences in Future Perfect Continuous Tense

To make a positive sentence, we add will/shall + have been before the present participle
Perfect Continuous Tenses
form of the main verb. For example:
You will have been waiting for more than two hours when he finally arrives.
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I shall have been learning Latin since January.
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To make a negative sentence, we add will/shall + not + have been before the present
participle form of the main verb. For example:
You will not have been swimming for long when the pool shuts down.
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I shall not have been learning Latin since January.
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To make an interrogative sentence, we add will/shall before the subject + have been,
followed by the present participle form of the main verb. For example:

Will you have been cooking for long when you come to my house?
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Shall I have been learning Latin since January?
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Practice Time 3

Rewrite the given sentences in the future perfect continuous tense.

1. They have been talking for the last half an hour.
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2. She has been working with that household for two years.

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