Summaries which tense

Past perfect continuous: to show that something started in the past and continued until another time in the past.

The action is not on in the present. Example: I had been working at ABC for 5 years. I WAS working the entire day is the same. I HAD BEEN working on that soup all that day, would also constitute a sufficient past tense way of interpreting the same as above, for example. This is in the past perfect continuous tense.

The latter means she had been working continuously with an advertising company for the past 5 years. The first does not necessarily mean her work with the advertising company was uninterrupted over the five years. Search only containers. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. Members Current visitors. Interface Language. Log in. Install the app. Find headings for the different paragraphs. Write down key-words not more than 20 which are important for the summary.

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In 1 the sequence of actions is expressed by the past perfect tense ; whereas in 2 the sequence of actions is indicated by the use of before Examples She had been working as a secretary for two years when she was promoted. What had she been writing all day? I had been waiting for 10 minutes when she arrived. I waited for 10 minutes before she arrived. Whereas in 1 the past perfect continuous indicates both the sequence of the actions and the continuity of the first action; in 2 the sequence of the actions is indicated by before.

Actions expressed in the simple future are bound to happen because of the course of time. This means that the speaker has no power over the events, that he cannot control what will happen. For this reason this tense is also called the uncertain future. Examples He will be sixteen years old next Friday.

The baby will be born next month going to The simple future is used in the main clause not in the if-clause. What are you going to do about this? We nearly always use a future time expression with it. The match begins at You leave from Kennedy airport at noon, and arrive in Paris at We usually use it to describe travel plans, time tables, departures, arrivals.

Examples The bus leaves at The reception starts at The ferry leaves Dover at What will you be doing this time next week? Examples At They will be giving three performances there. Otherwise, he would have heard the phone. She will still be doing the washing up. Will they have copied all that material by Friday morning? How long will you have been living in that shack by the end of this year?

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