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Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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4. Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
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5. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

II. MAIN PART

The Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Today we are going to learn new tenses “The Past Perfect Continuous Tense” and
“The Future Perfect”.
How to form the past perfect continuous tense.

Subjec Auxiliary verb Auxiliary Main verb
verb

I had been working
You had been playing tennis
It had not been working well
We had not been expecting her
Had had been drinking?
Had had been waiting long

The past perfect continuous corresponds to the present perfect continuous, but with
reference to a time earlier than 'before now'. As with the present perfect continuous, we are
more interested in the process.
The past perfect continuous tense is like the past perfect tense, but it expresses longer
actions in the past before another action in the past. For example:
Ram started waiting at 9 am. I arrived at 11 am. When I arrived, Ram had been waiting
for two hours.
John was very tired. He had been running.
I could smell cigarettes. Somebody had been smoking.
Suddenly, my car broke down. I was not surprised. It had not been running well for a
long time.
Had the pilot been drinking before the crash?
“The Future Perfect”
How to form the future perfect tense.

Auxiliary
Subjec Auxiliary verb Main verb
verb
I Will have finished by 10 am.
You Will have forgotten me by then
She Will not have gone to school.
We Will not have left
Will You have arrived?

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