Question

playing by the rules? 12. Had the players (1)have (3)be (2) been (4) has​

Answer 1

Answer:

Had the players (1) have (2) been playing by the rules ?

Explanation:

Make the words inorder to fit the sentence

Answer 2

Answer:

Had the players been playing by the rules?

Explanation:

Past perfect continuous tense is used for an action which happened over a period of time. For example, I had been reading that book since morning. In this sentence, the reading happened since morning.

Form

The past perfect continuous uses ‘had been + an ing-form’.  

Examples

I had been living in Ludhiana for forty years.

It had been raining since 10 a.m.