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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS VS PAST PERFECT TV

I had been eating lunch outside before winter, and I will have been doing so every summer for a decade if I do it this year.1.I had been eating lunch outside before winter made it too cold, but I will have prepared for it this year.I had been eating lunch outside before winter, and I will be doing it again soon.I had been eating lunch with my friends last week, but I will eat alone today.I had been eating lunch at a cafe that closed, so I am looking for a new place to go.I had been eating lunch too quickly, the doctor told me, so now I take my time.I had been eating lunch when our dog escaped, and I have been looking for him ever since.I had been eating lunch there for years, but the cafe has closed now.I had been eating lunch after I had been studying all morning.I had been eating lunch which the chefs had prepared earlier.I had been eating lunch while it was raining.I had been eating lunch when the bell rang.They also might be easily replaced with the past continuous, where the specific past time is less important.

“I had been eating lunch after I had been studying, when the phone rang.”). As with the past perfect, these examples imply, or require, a past time context – in these cases, however, we would usually expect either a duration or an interruption (e.g. The past perfect continuous follows all the same considerations as the past perfect, though with the focus being on the process rather than completion, so usually we use it instead to talk about a duration or something that was interrupted.

I had eaten lunch before I got home and I will have been doing so every day for a month by the end of the week.

I had eaten lunch before going out and I will have made that mistake four times this month if I do it again tomorrow.

I had eaten lunch there before I left London and I will be eating there again when I return.

I had eaten lunch there before it closed down but I will try the restaurant again if it reopens.

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS VS PAST PERFECT TV

I had eaten lunch before I got home, so I am only watching TV now.I had eaten lunch without her that day, and my wife remains upset.I had eaten lunch before they offered me some, and I have been regretting it ever since.I had eaten lunch before I got home, but I have grown hungry again.I had eaten lunch after I had been studying all morning.I had eaten lunch which I had cooked myself.

I had eaten lunch while it was raining.

I had eaten lunch before I took my exam.

Note that almost all of these examples could also work with the past simple instead of the past perfect, the key difference is that our past perfect is emphasising the completion of the action at a certain past time. These implications are less clear for a connection between the past perfect and present or future, so we can’t easily form a logical sentence without including additional context. So when we say, for example, “I had eaten lunch while it was raining.”, the idea we are implying might be something like “I had eaten lunch while it was raining, and the rain later stopped.” Likewise, “I had eaten lunch after I had been studying all morning.” would generally suggest something like “I was not hungry at 1pm because I had eaten lunch after I had been studying all morning.” Though some of these statements make sense on their own without an explicit past time connection, the implication with the past perfect is that we are speaking in relation to some other past event. The past perfect is used to specifically show that something was complete at a certain time in the past because of this, it mostly connects to other past tense statements (for a relative point of past time).