Usage of Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense emphasize the duration of an activity that would be in progress before another time or event in the future in action but past in time of speaking (I would have been sleeping for two hours by the time my brother went home because he would get home at midnight
Affirmative
Subject + would/ should + have + been + Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would have been studying in Italy
I/ we should have been studying in Italy
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Negative
Subject + would/ should+ not + have + been + Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would not have been studying in Italy
I/ we should not have been studying in Italy
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Interrogative
Would/ should + subject + have + been + Verb-ing
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Would I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it have been studying in Italy?
Should I/ we have been studying in Italy?
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Negative interrogative
Would/ should + not + subject + have + been + Verb-ing
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Would not I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my
friend/it have been studying in Italy?
Should not I/we have been studying in Rome?
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Notes:
The shorted
form
I would : I’d
You would : You’d
We would : We’d
They would : They’d
He would : He’d
She would : She’d
Would not : Wouldn’t
Should not : Shouldn’t
Past Future
Perfect Continuous Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Would you have been studying in Madrid?
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Yes I would
No, I would not
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Yes I would have been studying in Madrid
No, I would not have been studying in Madrid |
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Would he have been studying in Madrid?
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Yes he would
No, he would not
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Yes he would have studying in Madrid
No, he would not have been studying |