Uso del Pasado Perfecto Continuo en Inglés

Clase 4 de 21 • Curso de Inglés Intermedio Alto B2: Comentarios y Opiniones

Resumen

Seguramente en el pasado trabajaste duro en tus proyectos durante un largo tiempo. Hablar de tus acciones pasadas te permitirá expresar qué has estado haciendo en el pasado y durante cuánto tiempo.

Acciones pasadas en progreso

Existen varios tiempos verbales para hablar del pasado. En esta oportunidad exploraremos el Pasado Perfecto Continuo cuyo vocabulario nos permitirá expresar acciones del pasado que finalizaron en otro punto del pasado.

Para este nuevo vocabulario, utilizaremos la siguiente gramática:

Oraciones positivas: Subject + had been + verb (-ing form)
Oraciones negativas Subject + had not been + verb (-ing form)

Veamos algunos ejemplos:

Homer had been sleeping when the doorbell rang.
I had been practicing gymnastic for 10 years by the time I decide it was time to quit.
They had not been traveling until they got their vaccine.
He had been losing weight until the holidays.

Con este vocabulario, ya sabes expresar tus acciones que han tenido lugar en el pasado durante un cierto tiempo.

Contribución creada por: Kevin Fiorentino (Platzi Contributor).

Rubén Cuello

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Felipe Bernardo González Barranco

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Maria Fernanda Quintanill Arias

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Orlando Leyva acosta

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I had been watching television until I realized that it was time to study English.

Franco Chalacan

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I had been learning bioinformatics, until I realized I had to read more. I had not been cooking this week, the kitchen was damaged

Estefany Serrano

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exercise . I had been helping a friend. . They had not been traveling until they got their vaccine. . I´m not sure. He had been losing weight until the holidays. .

I had been a bit confused with the past action in progress time ago, but this class helped me a lot to clarify the topic, thank you!

Álvaro Morales

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I'd been thinking that I was not soppoused to use "understand" in a progressive form until I received this lesson.

Ricardo Rito Anguiano

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I feel a little confused with this lesson, I guess something its not clear in my mind.

In the first question: What were you doing when I called you? Correct answer is I had been helping a friend.

But... What if I was cooking? I can say i was cooking dinner. I guess I can...

I think "I had been helping a friend." it's right, but I think the first one is correct too.

So both are corrects or how to decide which one is correct?

Victor Rafael Lantigua Bello

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I had the same thoughts. “I was cooking dinner” makes more sense to me.

If the question had been “What had you been doing when I called you?” Then I would’ve answered “I had been helping a friend”

Jeisson Fabian Murcia Martínez

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Hey Ricardo. Well, that's a good question. All the answers are possible, however, the topic's about Past Actions in Progress. That's when you do something up until another event happened and interrupted you to ongoing the action. With that in mind, I was cooking dinner doesn't fill with it because we need another action to interrupt the one we were previously doing. "I was busy" it's correct as well but it's an action that already happened. So, the best option is D. I had been helping a friend.

I hope it has been useful to you.

Osmar Barrios

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Teacher: I noted you didn´t use contractions in sentences related to future continuous and past perfect continuous. So, is it correct to use contractions like "won´t be" or "hadn´t been" instead of the way you used in the examples?

Carlos Eduardo Céspedes Angulo

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Hi! Yes, it's correct and very frequent in informal contexts. :)

Andrés Montoya Jimenez

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I had been struggling with English until I found Platzi

It seems the company had not been able to find the new manager until last month

Augusto Mas

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I don't see real difference between Past Perfect Progressive and Past Progressive... Can anyone shed some light on that? what is the difference between those tenses?

Jorge Marroquin

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Hi Augusto. Past progressive indicates continuing action, something that was happening at some point in the past" while Past Perfect Progressive is used to indicate a continuous action that was completed at some point in the past". 👌

Augusto Mas

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Thank you very much @marroking99!!! It is much clear now!

Christian López

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It is correct to say: I had been listening to music when my mom called me to eat

Jeisson Fabian Murcia Martínez

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Yes, it is. There you are highlighting that you were doing an action up until another happened.

Jaime Flores García

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Can I answer in past for those questions? For example: "What happened with Chris?" In past action in progress would be: He had been losing weight until the holidays And then could be like: He lost weight till holidays?

Jeisson Fabian Murcia Martínez

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Hi Jaime. Yes, both answers are possible, it depends on the intention. What do you want to highlight in a real conversation? That something happened? Or maybe an action was ongoing up until another point in the past? Any answer's correct, but there are differences in the intention.

Hope this has been useful to you.

Juan Mendez

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I had not been learning properly until I saw your course :)

Juan Domínguez

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I had been studying in Patzi for one year before I enroll in this amazing adventure my english was bad, but trough this year, I improve it a lot.

Daniel Gómez Segovia

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I had been studying English until I got distracted by my son.

Daniel F López

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Hi! I want to share with you other examples:

I had been completing my final assignations when I figure out that I had more to do.
I had been reading about English grammar for several months until I started taking classes here in Platzi.

Isaac Arretche Chavez

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I had been studying german during the vacations

I had been playing warzone until Silksong was launched

Annee Jazmin Zambrano

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I had been waisting time on my smartphone until I remembered that my goal is to have good English by the end of the year.

SANTIAGO ECHAVARRIA LONDOÑO

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I have a question here because in part of the practice in the first sentence the answer A and B also are correct or i'm wrong?

Avelez96

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Hello!! i have a questions... if you say : ¨i practiced gymnastics for 10 years by the time i decided it was time to quit¨ its wrong?

Carlos Villavicencio

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Is it wrong to use to describe the cause of some present situation like: He is tired because he had been jogging.