Improve your English grammar with BBC Learning English. In this episode of 6 Minute Grammar, Neil, Catherine and Finn show you how to use the past perfect continuous tense which we use to give background information to an event in the past.
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0:00 Introduction
0:08 Past perfect continuous
2:59 How to form the past perfect continuous
3:58 Other ways to use the past perfect continuous