Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

TAG QUESTIONS
I 
I
You 
you
He/She/It had (’d) been waiting for an hour, hadn’t he/she/it? – Yes,/(No,)… had(n’t).
We 
we
You 
you
They
they
I 
I
You 
you
He/She/It  had not (hadn’t) been working all day, had he/she/it? – Yes,/(No,)… had(n’t).
We 
we
You 
you
They
 
they
Exercise 18. Give the right tag to these sentences.
It was late and she’d been working since early morning, __________?
You hadn’t been standing there since 6 o’clock, __________?
He’d been gardening all day, __________?
They hadn’t been writing to the firm for all that time, __________?
Jane had been studying English for 5 years before she visited England, 
__________?

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He’d been running in the park when I saw him, __________?
They had been ringing me about it every day for the past week, __________?
You hadn’t been playing volleyball all evening, __________?
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Past Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Continuous
is used:
1) to express a single completed 
action which happened before a 
definite time in the past
When I got home, 1 found that Jack 
had painted the door. 
(Perhaps recently, perhaps some 
time ago.)—a completed action
is used:
1) to express longer activities which 
had been going on continuously up 
to, or beyond, a definite time in the 
past
When I got home, I found that Jack 
had been painting the door. 
(The paint was probably still wet.)—
an uncompleted action
2) with verbs not used in the 
continuous 
By the time they finally broke up, 
they had known each other for ten 
years.
2) with want and sometimes wish
Ruth had always been wanting to 
live somewhere in the mountains a 
long way from the hustle and bustle 
of London.