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2006年6月6日 · Jun 6, 2006. #2. The present perfect continuous (which is what your first example is, not the past) is generally translated using the present tense in French. There's often a "depuis" that goes with it, translating the "for" or "since" that is common in such sentences in English. So:
2022年12月18日 · past perfect continuous 2nd meaning is to emphasis duration. Continuous verb forms sometimes emphasise duration. This is independent of the choice of tense. The reason for using the past perfect is because "what i had been missing" happened before "my friend made me realize",
2008年10月23日 · The past perfect continuous/progressive simply identifies an action that began before another past action; in a timeline, it would be: past perfect progressive--->simple past--->moment of speaking. Whether or not the past progressive ended before the simple past is a different matter, which depends entirely on the meaning of the verbs involved.
2021年8月12日 · Aug 12, 2021. #2. The past perfect and its continuous are useful if you need to indicate that something happened in a more distant past in a narrative about the past: I had already been living in Moscow for several years (more distant past) before I first met Ilya (more recent past). =Alex= said:
2012年6月26日 · Questa regola vale anche per il past perfect continuous (almeno cosi` penso). L'unica differenza fra i due tempi e` che se uso il past perfect continuous intendo dare maggiore importanza al tempo trascorso e non tanto al risultato di un azione o di un evento; con il past perfect invece si da` maggiore rilevanza al risultato.
2010年4月24日 · If I had not been fired Conditional. would have been Past Future Perfect. working Continuous. All the qualities of the Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense are here. All action starts and stops in the past. Been working is continuous and "If" is conditional. T.
2011年1月30日 · Southern England. English - Southern England. May 14, 2010. #6. "So far" means up until now/the present. It's an action which continues on, so you cannot use so far if the action has now been completed. He didn't (did not) do it in the past and he hasn't (has not) done it so far = he continues to not do it.
2009年12月20日 · Dec 20, 2009. #1. Dear All, One of my grammar books says: when we use "before" to say one event happned after another, we can use either the past simple or past perfect for event that happened first. Now I want to know, when we say how long something went on before another event, whether both past simple and past perfect can be used as well.
2008年5月1日 · Efectivamente las dos oraciones empiezan con el past continous como la primera de hay que lleve el conector while al empezar. En cuanto a la segunda tambien empieza con el past continous y acaba con el past simple pero admite el conector when. Sobre esto no tengo problemas. Se bien que el past perfect conlleba el past de have=had más participio.
2012年1月23日 · The one in the "since" clause is more pluperfect (anterior actions in the past), while the one in the main clause is just a perfective aspect on a past tense. There are some - exceptional - cases where the main verb in a "since" sentence can be in the present. Thus, it's conceivable that there might be sentences with the past simple, because ...
