Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past perfect continuous tense adalah suatu bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk mengungkapkan suatu aksi (dengan durasi waktu tertentu) telah selesai pada suatu titik waktu tertentu di masa lalu.
Rumus Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past perfect continuous tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb had dan been dan present participle. Secara umum past perfect continuous tense hanya terjadi pada aksi berupa dynamic verb, tidak stative verb karena umumnya hanya dynamic verb yang memiliki bentuk continuous.
Dengan demikian rumus past perfect continuous tense untuk kalimat positif, negatif, dan interogatif adalah sebagai berikut.
Jenis Kalimat | Rumus | Contoh Past Perfect Continuous Tense |
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positif (+) | S + had + been + V1-ing/present participle | Lia had been walking |
The labors had been demonstrating | ||
negatif (-) | S + had + not + been + V1-ing/present participle | Lia had not been walking |
The labors hadn’t been demostrating | ||
interogatif (?) | had + S + been + V1-ing/present participle | Had Lia been walking |
Had the labors been demonstrating |
Beberapa Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Fungsi | Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense |
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Past perfect continuous tense untuk mengekspresikan aksi yang panjang di masa lampau sebelum aksi lainnya terjadi. | When the guests came, we had been waitingfor an hour. (Ketika para tamu datang, kita telah menunggu selama satu jam.) |
He had been standing in front of the door for thirthy minutes before it was opened. (Dia telah berdiri di depan pintu selama tiga puluh menit sebelum dibukakan.) | |
Past perfect continuous tense untuk memberitahukan berapa lama sesuatu terjadi (period of time) atau sampai waktu tertentu di masa lampau. | She was annoyed since she had been waitingfor 2 hours on the bus station. (Dia kesal karena telah menunggu selama 2 jam di halte bus.) |
By the time the teacher came, the studentshad been reading a half part of the text. (Pada waktu guru datang, para siswa telah membaca separuh bagian dari teks.) | |
I had been working with my computer all day, and all I wanted to do was eat some chocolate. (Saya telah bekerja dengan komputer sepanjang hari, dan yang ingin saya lakukan adalah makan coklat.) |
Semoga penjelasan materi past perfect continuous tense ini bermanfaat dan mohon maaf jika ada kekurangan.
References:
- Past Perfect Progressive Tense.http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/past_perfect_progressive.htm. Accessed on October 5, 2013.
- Grammar Handbook: Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms.http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/perfectforms/. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
- More Tenses. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/moreT.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
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