Question

Rewrite the following sentences using the past perfect continuous tense of the verbs given in the brackets.​

Answer 1

AnswEr :

3) They (fight) this court case for three years when they decided to settle it themselves.

• They had been fighting this court case for three years when they decided to settle it themselves.

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Past perfect continuous tense :

• Past perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action which began in the past and continued up to a certain point of time in the past.

Examples :

• They had been playing in the park for three hours before I called them.

• When I visited him in Chandigarh, he had been teaching there for five years.

Structure of past perfect continuous tense :

• Subject + (had been) + (First form of the verb) + ing

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Answer 2

♡ Answer ࿐

They had been fighting this court case for three years when they decided to settle it themselves .