Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Continuous vreme je glagolsko vreme koje je, doduše, veoma retko u upotrebi u engleskom jeziku. Kod nas se prevodi kao nesvršeni pluskvamperfekat.

Građenje

Past Perfect Continuous Tense se gradi od prošlog oblika pomoćnog glagola to have, past participa glagola to be i glavnog glagola u -ing formi.

Subject + had + been + verb (-ing)

Lice	Jednina	Množina
1.	I had been watching	We had been watching
2.	You had been watching	You had been watching
3.	He/She/It had been watching	They had been watching

Negativni oblik se dobija negacijom pomoćnog glagola to have tj. u ovom slučaju had. Na njega se dodaje  not  a ostatak Past Perfect Continuousa ostaje isti kao u pozitivnom obliku.

Lice	Jednina	Množina
1.	I had not (hadn't) been watching	We had not (hadn't) been watching
2.	You had not (hadn't) been watching	You had not (hadn't) been watching
3.	He/She/It had not (hadn't) been watching	They had not (hadn't) been watching

Upitni oblik dobija se inverzijom subjekta i pomočnog glagola to have odnosno had. 

Primer:

Had you been watching the game before you fell asleep?

Upotreba

1. Koristi se da pokaže da je neka daleka prošla radnja počela, trajala i završila se pre početka neke druge prošle radnje (koja je u Past Simple/Continuous Tense-u)

Primer:

I had been playing video game for two hours, when she came.

2. Koristi se da označi ponovljene radnje u dalekoj prošlosti.

Primer:

I had been trying to call her a lot of times.