9.54 Formación del past perfect continuous

El past perfect continuous se forma con el past perfect del verbo auxiliar to be + la «forma en -ing» del verbo que se conjuga. Damos como modelo el past perfect continuous del verbo to work:


Forma afirmativa


Estructura: sujeto + had + been + «forma en -ing» del verbo que se conjuga.


Sin contraer Forma contraída

I had been working I’d been working

yo había estado trabajando

you had been working you’d been working

he had been working he’d been working

etc. etc.

 

Forma negativa


Estructura: sujeto + had + not + been + «forma en -ing» del verbo que se conjuga.

Sin contraer Forma contraída

I had not been working

yo no había estado trabajando you had not been working

he had not been working

etc. I hadn’t been working


you hadn’t been working he hadn’t been working

etc.



Forma interrogativa


Estructura: had + sujeto + been + «forma en -ing» del verbo que se conjuga.


Forma interrogativo-negativa


Estructura: had + sujeto + not + been + «forma en -ing» del verbo que se conjuga.

Sin contraer Forma contraída

had I not been working? hadn’t I been working?

¿no había estado yo trabajando

had you not been working? hadn’t you been working?

had he not been working? hadn’t he been working?

etc. etc.