
Past Perfect Continuous
Why is it incorrect to say "I had been knowing her for a long time before she passed away"? Take this past perfect continuous course to find out.
Course Facts
- Level Intermediate Plus
- 3 hours of activities*
- 53 minutes of video content
- 24 downloadable resources
- 4 self-study activities
* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.
Course Objectives
- To understand the situations when the past perfect continuous tense is required
- To know how to form the present participle for any verb
- To use the past perfect continuous in the affirmative, negative, question and short response forms
- To identify keywords that are used in the past perfect continuous and use them correctly
- To avoid common mistakes that learners make in the past perfect continuous tense
- To understand what a stative verb is and recognise the most common stative verbs in English
- To correctly pronounce any word ending in ING according to the pronunciation rules and understand the differences between slang and proper ING pronunciation
- To correctly pronounce contractions using had been
- To use word stress and sentence stress to correctly pronounce past perfect continuous phrases
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Course Content

Course Includes
- 5 Lessons
- 27 Topics
- 1 Quiz
- Course Certificate
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