What is the difference between the PAST CONTINUOUS and the PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS?

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10 ай бұрын

In this lesson learn the difference between the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous. So, the difference between the cat was sleeping and the cat had been sleeping. With lots of example sentences and a quiz at the end, learn how to use these Engish tenses with confidence for all your writing and speaking needs.
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@oxfordenglishnow 7 ай бұрын

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@flowerwhite5284 3 ай бұрын

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@NamNguyenVan-bz4wx 10 ай бұрын

Hello Sarah. Nice to meet you again. Thank you for the very useful lesson! Thanks to your explanation, from now on I understand the difference between the past continuos tense and the past perfect continuous tense. This has been a confusing thing for long time for me. Here is my reply to your question. The correct answer is as follows: Rob had been living in the same house for five years before he redecorated the sitting room. See you soon.

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! Well done, You are correct! Good job!

@sawneri3378 8 ай бұрын

B is the correct answer.

@oxfordenglishnow 8 ай бұрын

That's right! Well done!

@chiinwatv 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful sharing

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@imperiojojoias1375 Ай бұрын

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@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

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@oxfordenglishnow 4 ай бұрын

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@loiomgirldirectioner5309 4 ай бұрын

Thanks a million for the clear explanation

@oxfordenglishnow 4 ай бұрын

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@gregoriussudaryono260 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for telling the defference between past continuous tense and past perfect tense, dear teacher. 🙏 9:41

@oxfordenglishnow 8 ай бұрын

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@ManFromMars690 10 ай бұрын

Well explained thank you very much indeed for your efforts.

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

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@focus2074 8 ай бұрын

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@mohamedfadaly1810 26 күн бұрын

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@oxfordenglishnow 21 күн бұрын

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@raghavlavaniya2228 9 ай бұрын

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@oxfordenglishnow 9 ай бұрын

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@honeygamerop 9 ай бұрын

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@giuseppecoppola6571 10 ай бұрын

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@ceyda3113 6 ай бұрын

Very clear explanation thanks:))

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@ballavenkataramana7702 7 ай бұрын

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@Explore_srilanka654 4 ай бұрын

excellent explanation

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@English-touda Ай бұрын

thanks a lot

@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

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@aakankshaupadhyay1078 10 ай бұрын

It was my first day of class. I finally found the right room. The room was already full of students. On one side of the room, the students were speaking to each other in Spanish. The others were speaking Japanese and some were conversing in Arabic. It sounds like the United Nations. Some of the students, however, were sitting quietly by themselves. I chose an empty seat in the last row and sat down. In a few minutes, the teacher walked into the room and all the multilingual conversation stopped. I wonder if somebody could help me with the grammatical errors here!

@oxfordenglishnow 9 ай бұрын

Hi, I think your writing is great. I have only found a couple of things I would change. It was my first day of class. I finally found the right room. The room was already full of students. On one side of the room, the students were speaking to each other in Spanish. The others were speaking Japanese and some were conversing in Arabic. It SOUNDED like the United Nations. Some of the students, however, were sitting quietly by themselves. I chose an empty seat in the last row and sat down. AFTER a few minutes, the teacher walked into the room and all the multilingual conversation stopped. I hope that helps!

@aakankshaupadhyay1078 9 ай бұрын

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@surajskumar233 10 ай бұрын

Long time no see. Welcome back 🔙

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

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@surajskumar233 10 ай бұрын

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@imperiojojoias1375 Ай бұрын

Hello from Brazil

@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

Hello to Brazil !

@claristajosephine6091 6 ай бұрын

i think B is correct because there's duration of the action, but i also think A is correct because Rob will still living in the same house after he redecorated :(((( the second sentence with "HAD BEEN" means he no longer live in the same house..

@oxfordenglishnow 6 ай бұрын

B is correct because the past continuous cannot hold a span of time with for or since. I hope that helps! 😊

@odyssey2213 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the lesson. I have a question. Can we say using the past simple: We stoped by the house where my mother lived for see…. ?

@oxfordenglishnow 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure. We can say, « We stopped by the house where my mother lived to see her. »

@agniaretaki3891 3 ай бұрын

The second one is the right one because there are two actions.

@oxfordenglishnow 2 ай бұрын

Correct! well done!

@noorahmadhabibi3204 Ай бұрын

Hello Dear Teacher "This is intended for advance student" The above sentence is simple present passive or simple past passive or simple infinitive passive?

@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

The given sentence is in the simple present passive voice.

@BadadaBadadatadasa 5 ай бұрын

Good

@oxfordenglishnow 5 ай бұрын

Thanks

@BOLA-ls4um Ай бұрын

in the sentence "The cat had been sleeping when its owner came home" does the sentence imply that the sleeping was interrupted by the owner or not ?

@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

The sentence "The cat had been sleeping when its owner came home" does not necessarily imply that the sleeping was interrupted by the owner. Instead, it describes a past state or action (the cat sleeping) that was ongoing or continuous at a specific point in the past (when the owner came home). The use of the past perfect progressive tense ("had been sleeping") indicates that the cat was already in the state of sleeping before the owner came home. It doesn't explicitly state whether the sleeping was interrupted or not. It simply sets up the sequence of events: the cat was sleeping, and then its owner came home. Whether the cat continued sleeping after the owner's arrival is not specified by this sentence alone.

@abdirahmanismail6865 10 күн бұрын

B is the correct answer

@GyanodayPublicSchoolBhitari 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the lesson . Could you please tell us which of the given options are correct here in this situation- I reached my my friend's home one hour ago.I am at my friend's home now. I am sitting alone. Nobody has come to attend me so far. Now my friend has just come to me . Which sentences are correct to say ? 1. Where were you for so long? 2. Where were you ? 3. Where had you been ? 4. Where have you been ? 5. Where had you been for so long? 6. Where have you been for so long?

@oxfordenglishnow 2 ай бұрын

In the given situation, the correct sentences to say would be: Where were you for so long? Where were you? These sentences are appropriate because you are asking about your friend's whereabouts during the time you were alone at their home. The other options are not as fitting for the context: Where had you been? - This implies a past action completed before another past action, but it doesn't fit well with the immediate situation of your friend arriving. Where have you been? - This suggests a more general inquiry about your friend's recent activities and might not capture the context of your waiting for them. Where had you been for so long? - Similar to option 3, it emphasizes a completed past action before another past action. Where have you been for so long? - While grammatically correct, it might sound a bit more accusatory or impatient than the situation warrants. It's a valid option but may convey a slightly different tone.

@GyanodayPublicSchoolBhitari 2 ай бұрын

@@oxfordenglishnow Very nicely explained ! Thank you so much !

@sarthakac 9 ай бұрын

Hello Ma'am, Which tense should be used in the following sentence? Past perfect or past simple? > Teacher: Why were you absent for so long? Sam: I _____(had been/had gone/went) to a one week English Literature Workshop conducted by ELS.

@oxfordenglishnow 9 ай бұрын

Went. Completed activity in the past. I hope that helps!

@sarthakac 9 ай бұрын

@@oxfordenglishnow Thankyou ma'am

@mohammedhamdoud8335 9 ай бұрын

@@oxfordenglishnowI believe that the past perfect emphasizes the completion of the action and the past simple needs a specific time indication to use it. So in this case the past perfect is the correct tense. Am I right??

@hadihassanattari1595 3 ай бұрын

Hello It was raining when i left the house....... It had been raining when I left the house

@oxfordenglishnow 2 ай бұрын

Hi, 2 good sentences. The first shows that it is still raining, the second that it is no longer raining. 😊

@DAG_M 10 ай бұрын

In my eyes sentence B indicates that he doesn't live here anymore. Sentence A highlights the time before refurbishment. He may still live here.

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

Hi, I disagree, he could be still living there in sentence B. A is wrong because the past continuous cannot hold the span of time with it, so we have to use the past perfect continuous. I hope that helps.

@mahadevvatnal3689 10 ай бұрын

"B" is correct

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

That's correct! Well done!

@LevitaVlog 10 ай бұрын

both correct🙄😅

@oxfordenglishnow 10 ай бұрын

B is the correct answer. The past continuous cannot hold the span of time with it, so we have to use the past perfect continuous. Also here we are emphasising an action that happened before another in the past. I hope that helps. 😊

@VOTETOTVOT Ай бұрын

What I realized... Past continuous we can use to show that the first action necessarily took place during the second action, we don't care if it started earlier, and we can't specify the duration of the first action before the second action starts, even though it does. Past perfect continuous is used to show that the first action occurred before the second action, and possibly during and after the second action, and we can specify the duration of the first action before the beginning of the second. But I was confused by two examples. 1.: "I was eating all day so I wasn't hungy". Why can't I eat when I'm not hungry? We need to show that when I was eating all day I wasn't hungry and the past continuous doesn't seem to bother us, does it? 2: "She was painting the room when she was taken to hospital" and one of the meanings of past continuous is lost. Or was she taken to hospital together with the room? What do we need past perfect, past perfect continuous for? One grammatical tense begins to play the role of another. To diversify or simplify speech? And we can't use the prepositions by, since with past continuous. And the prepositions at, in, on with past perfect continuous. Right? Can we indicate the duration of an action, when we use past perfect?

@oxfordenglishnow Ай бұрын

Your observations are quite insightful, and you've touched upon some interesting points regarding the use of past continuous and past perfect continuous tenses. "I was eating all day so I wasn't hungry." In this case, the past continuous is used to describe an ongoing action (eating all day) that was happening at some point in the past. It doesn't necessarily mean you couldn't eat when you weren't hungry; rather, it emphasizes the continuous nature of the action. The focus here is on the duration of eating, and the contrast with not being hungry is just additional information. "She was painting the room when she was taken to the hospital." This sentence is a bit ambiguous and might benefit from clarification. It implies that she was painting the room when the action of being taken to the hospital occurred. If you want to convey a clearer sequence of events, you might say, "She had been painting the room when she was taken to the hospital." This brings in the past perfect continuous to emphasize the duration of the painting activity before the hospitalization. Regarding prepositions, your general observation is correct. Past continuous is often used with prepositions like "while" or "when," while past perfect continuous is commonly used with prepositions like "by," "since," "for," or "before." In the case of indicating the duration of an action, past perfect continuous is particularly useful. For example, "She had been studying for three hours before the exam." Here, the past perfect continuous helps express the duration of the studying activity leading up to the specific point in the past (the exam).

@VOTETOTVOT Ай бұрын

@@oxfordenglishnow, "I was eating all day so I wasn't hungry". Because of "so" we can say, when first action is the reason, second - the result. Wait, here isn't word "when", so this action can be at the same time and/or one by one. We don't know. So, why we can't say that to indicate the reason and the result? "I had been eating all day so wasn't hungry". We can say that the first act was MUST be before the second act and POSSIBLY during the second act. And supposedly "all day" is the duration of the first act before the second act. So I wasn't hungry the NEXT day, not the day I ate. Or does this logic only work when "before", "by" are used, but then why would Past Perfect Continuous be used here? And can we say that purely logically the sentence "She was painting the room when she was taken to the hospital" is not correct, because during the second short action the first long action is not performed, but people say so to simplify the sentence? I was just making a table of tenses for myself and looking for materials from all over the internet.

@VOTETOTVOT Ай бұрын

Or do I just need to memorize that for sentences with a reason (long action) in the past instead of past continuous, past perfect continuous is used as an exception, then "I was eating all day so wasn't hungry" is not correct, but "I was eating all day and wasn't hungry" is correct.

@Anna7English 2 ай бұрын

I can't understand the example: We stopped by the house where my mother was living.... Why do you say that mum still lives there if it is past tense?

@mellyz601 2 ай бұрын

....where my mother was living....where=means her place. So she is still living there😊

@oxfordenglishnow 2 ай бұрын

The sentence "We stopped by the house where my mother was living" is in the past tense, and it doesn't necessarily imply that your mother still lives there. The past continuous tense, indicated by "was living," is often used to describe an ongoing action or situation at a specific point in the past. In this case, it means that at the time of the visit, your mother was living in that house. The use of the past continuous tense doesn't provide information about the current situation. It simply describes the state of affairs at a particular moment in the past. To determine whether your mother still lives there, you would need additional context or information from the present. The sentence itself, as written, doesn't make any claims about the current status of your mother's residence.

@Anna7English 2 ай бұрын

@@oxfordenglishnow Thank you