Past Perfect Continuous: questions

 

To make questions in the Past Perfect Continuous, put had before the subject and add been + the “-ing” form of the verb:

 

Singular	Plural
Had I been skating? Had you been skating? Had he/she/it been skating?	Had we been skating? Had you been skating? Had they been skating?

 

• Had it been snowing for a long time before you went for a walk?
• Had you been playing chess with Timothy when your mom called you for dinner?
• Had she been studying Spanish for three years by the time she went to Madrid?  

 

Note: In short positive answers to the Past Perfect Continuous questions we use only full forms of had. In short negative answers we can also use short forms of had.

 

• Had you been playing football?
• Yes, I had (No, I hadn’t).

 

• Had she been watching TV at that moment?
• Yes, she had (No, she hadn’t).