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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

perfect and perfect continuous tenses

hello, may I know, can the perfect and perfect continuous in the past or future tenses be used on their own or must they be used with other tenses? For the present tenses, it is ok to use them on their own, isnt it?

example

I had been watching television (past perfect continuous)

vs

I had been watching television when Mary came home (past perfect continuous + past simple)

we will have been cleaning the house for 5 hours (future perfect continuous)

vs

we will have been cleaning the house for 5 hours before they come (future perfect continuous + present simple)
  

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Anonymous may I know No. ' Could you tell me? ' Anonymous an the perfect and perfect continuous in the past or future tenses be used on their own or must they be used with other tenses?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous may I know No.
  • ' Could you tell me?
  • ' Anonymous an the perfect and perfect continuous in the past or future tenses be used on their own or must they be used with other tenses?
  • The other 'tense' must be somewhere in the context, but it needn't be in the same sentence.
  • For example: Mary came home at 11 PM.
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Anonymousmay I know
No. 'Could you tell me?'
Anonymousan the perfect and perfect continuous in the past or future tenses be used on their own or must they be used with other tenses?
The other 'tense' must be somewhere in the context, but it needn't be in the same sentence. For example:

Mary came home at
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