Kestopluskvamperfekti

Kestopluskvamperfektin funktioita

Kestopluskvamperfekti vastaa kestoperfektiä, mutta viittaa aikaan, joka oli 'ennen nyt'. Kuten kestoperfektissä, olemme kiinnostuneempia prosessista.

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Esimerkkejä

Had you been waiting long before the taxi arrived?
We had been trying to open the door for five minutes when Jane found her key.
It had been raining hard for several hours and the streets were very wet.
Her friends had been thinking of calling the police when she walked in.

Tätä muotoa käytetään myös epäsuorassa lainauksessa. Se vastaa kestoimperfektiä ja kestoperfektiä suorassa lainauksessa:

Jane said, "I have been gardening all afternoon." = Jane said she had been gardening all afternoon.
When the police questioned him, John said, "I was working late in the office that night." = When the police questioned him, John told them he had been working late in the office that night.

Kestopluskvamperfektin muodostaminen

Kestopluskvamperfekti muodostetaan kahdesta osasta - verbin pluskvamperfekti to be (=had been) + partisiipin preesens (verbin kantamuoto+ing).

Subjekti	had been	verbi + ing
I	had been	walking
Myönteinen
She	had been	trying
Kielteinen
She	hadn't been	sleeping
Kysymyslause
Had you	been	eating?
Kielteinen kysymyslause
Hadn't they	been	living?

To buy, kestopluskvamperfekti

Myönteinen	Kielteinen	Kysymyslause
I had been buying	I hadn't been buying	Had I been buying?
You had been buying	You hadn't been buying	Had you been buying?
She had been buying	She hadn't been buying	Had she been buying?
We had been buying	We hadn't been buying	Had we been buying?
They had been buying	They hadn't been buying	Had they been buying?