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May 6th, 2008, 12:28 am

emile

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Re: past perfect countinous

Wow, ... 'What had he been doing?' seems such an unnatural question to ask...

...but I agree to compare it to the present perfect continuous tense. Anyway, whoever invented this tense has a lot to answer for!!

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