Question

subject : english
chapter :the past tense​

Answer 1

Answer:-

1. I had been trying to solve that problem since morning.

2. She had spent a few months in Italy before coming to India.

3. He had been traveling a little way along the road when he realised he had taken a wrong turn.

4. She had lived in the same house for the past fifty years

5. He had planned to buy a house by the seaside after retiring.

Explore more about past perfect tense:-

The past perfect tense is used to express an action completed before a given past moment.

For example:-

1. I had expected that she would definitely come.
2. Last Sunday,we had gone to watch the film.

Explore more about past perfect continuous tense:-

• Past perfect continuous tense is used to express an action which began before a definite moment in the past, had continued up to that moment and was still in progress at the moment or had very recently finished.

For example:-

1. He had been working for me since 1.30 pm.
2. It was now ten and he was tired because she had been working for four hours.