We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. “For five minutes” and “for two weeks” are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous. Notice that this is related to the Present Perfect Continuous however, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before something else in the past.
ex: Lina had been study at the university for 1 year before she left to Korea.
10. Future Continuous Tense
Future Continuous has two different forms: “will be doing ” and “be going to be doing”. Future Continuous forms are usually interchangeable.
FORM:
(+) S + will be + Verb-ing
ex: I will be going to mosque.
(-) S + will not be + Verb-ing
ex: I won’t be going to church
(?) will + S + be + Verb-ing
ex: Will you going to mosque?
11. Future Perfect Tense
This sentence is used when we talk about the past in the future.
FORM:
(+) S + Will + have + Verb3
ex: I will have finished by 6 PM
(-) S + will + not + have + Verb3
ex: I will not have finished by 6 PM
(?) Will + S + have + Verb3
ex: will you have finished Verb3
12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense
We use the future perfect continuous tense to talk about a long action before some point in the future.
FORM:
(+) S + Will + have + been + Verb-ing
ex: Andra will have been drawing the sketch
(-) S + will + not + have + been + Verb-ing
ex: Andra Won’t have been drawing the sketch
(?) Will + S + have + been + Verb-ing ?
ex: Will Andra have been drawing the sketch?
13. Past Future Tense
this tense is used to express the events that WILL be done, BUT in the past, not the present.
FORM:
(+) S + would + Verb1
ex: I would go
(-) S + Would + not + Verb1
ex: I wouldn’t go
(?) Would + S + Verb1?
ex: Would you go?
14. Past Future Continuous Tense
Past Future Continuous tells an action would be in progress in the past.
FORM:
(+) S + was/were + going to be + Verb-ing
ex: She was going to be Cooking this morning
(-) S + was/were + not + going to be + Verb-ing
ex: She wasn’t going to be cooking this morning
(?) Was/were + S + going to be + Verb-ing
ex: was she going to be cooking this morning?
time signals for this tense is time in the past like, this morning, yesterday, last night, last week and so on.
15. Past Future Perfect Tense
This tense is restates the action stated in Future Perfect Tense but with different time dimension, it is in past time whilst the Future Perfect is in future time (not happen yet).
FORM:
(+) S + would + have + Verb3
ex: I would have drunk the milk last night
(-) S + would + not + have + Verb3
ex: I wouldn’t have drunk the milk last night
(?) Would + S + have + Verb3
ex: Would you have drunk the milk last night?
16. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense emphasizes on the course and the duration of the action. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used to tell an action which would have been happening until a certain time (period) in the past.
FORM:
(+) S + would + have + been + verb-ing
ex: Chris would have been working for 6 years when he get fired
(-) S+ would + not + have + been + verb-ing
ex: Chris wouldn’t have been working for 6 years when he get fired
(?) Would + subject + have + been + verb-ing?
ex: Would Chris have been working for 6 years when he get fired?
Well that was all about 16 tenses, keep learning to master them all. And see you in the other post. Cheer. Mr.D
