I'm Esther.

Let's start a checkup for the past.

Perfect, continuous tense.

Take a look at the first sentence.

It says they blink for a long time before they went home.

Tried to fill in the blank with the verb work in this tense.

Remember, no matter what the subject, we follow the subject with had been so we say they had been what happens to the verb?

Remember, we add I n g So the sentence is they had been working for a long time before they went home.

Now take a look at the second sentence.

I want you to use the negative.

I blink TV for a year before I started again.

Remember the negative form for this tense starts with the subject and then had not been Or I can use the contraction.

Haven't I?

Haven't been?

And then again, verb i n g.

I haven't been watching TV for a year before I started again.

Now try to find the mistake in this next sentence.

Gina and I hadn't been do any work before we started.

What's the error?

You'll notice that the verb does not have an i N.

G.

To make the sentence.

Correct?

We must say, Gina and I hadn't been doing any work before We started.

Now find the mistake here.

He had be watching YouTube because he had some free time.

No, he had.

That's correct.

But we need to change.

Be to Ben and watching is correct.

So he had been watching YouTube because he had some free time.

Let's move on now let's move on to another check up off the past.

Perfect, continuous tense.

Take a look at the first example.

It says the company blink employees because they worked hard.

Use the verb promote in the past.

Perfect, Continuous tense.

Remember, no matter what the subject we follow with had been.

So we say the company had been and then verb i n g.

So promoting the company had been promoting employees because they worked hard.

The next example says I blank your e mails for a while because they went to the spam folder here.

Try to use the negative form with the verb get Remember in the negative form we say had not been getting or the contraction hadn't been getting.

I hadn't been getting your emails for a while because they went to the Spam folder.

Now look for the mistake in the next sentence.

I had been work a lot because I needed the money.

What's the mistake?

Remember, we need to add I and G to the vert.

I had been working a lot because I needed the money.

The last sentence says he has been smoking because he was stressed.

Can you find the mistake?

Remember, Were practicing the past perfect, continuous in this case we need had after the subject, not has great job, everyone.

Let's move on.

Good job learning Another difficult English grammar tense The past perfect continuous can be tricky, but with time and practice you will get better.

English is not always easy, but always do your best and never give up.

I'll see you in the next video.