Past Perfect Continuous Tense: Penjelasan dan Contoh Soal

Soal Past Perfect Continuous

Pengertian Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past perfect continuous tense adalah suatu bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk mengungkapkan suatu aksi (dengan durasi waktu tertentu) telah selesai pada suatu titik waktu tertentu di masa lalu.

contoh kalimat past perfect continuous tense dan artinya: I'd been swimming for half an hour when they started swimming. (Saya sudah berenang selama setengah jam ketika mereka mulai berenang.)

contoh kalimat past perfect continuous tense dan artinya

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Rumus Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past perfect continuous tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb had dan been dan present participle. Secara umum past perfect continuous tense hanya terjadi pada aksi berupa dynamic atau action verb, tidak stative verb karena umumnya hanya dynamic verb yang memiliki bentuk continuous.

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Rumus past perfect continuous tense: had + been + present participle. Umumnya present participle berupa action verb.

rumus past perfect continuous tense

Berikut rumus past perfect continuous tense untuk kalimat positif, negatif, dan interogatif.

Rumus Past Perfect Continuous Tense Contoh Past Perfect Continuous Tense

kalimat positif (+):

S + had + been + -ing/present participle

Lia had been walking
The labors had been working

kalimat negatif (-):

S + had + not + been + -ing/present participle

Lia had not been walking
The labors hadn’t been working

kalimat interogatif (?):

had + S + been + -ing/present participle

Had Lia been walking
Had the labors been working

Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense

  1. Past perfect continuous tense untuk mengekspresikan aksi yang panjang di masa lampau sebelum aksi lainnya terjadi.

    Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense

    • When the guests came, we had been waiting for an hour.
      (Ketika para tamu datang, kita telah menunggu selama satu jam.)
    • He had been standing in front of the door for thirthy minutes before it was opened.
      (Dia telah berdiri di depan pintu selama tiga puluh menit sebelum dibukakan.)
  2. Tense ini untuk memberitahukan berapa lama sesuatu terjadi (period of time) atau sampai waktu tertentu di masa lampau.

    Contoh Kalimat Past Perfect Continuous Tense

    • She was annoyed since she had been waiting for 2 hours on the bus station.
      (Dia kesal karena telah menunggu selama 2 jam di halte bus.)
    • By the time the teacher came, the students had been reading a half part of the text.
      (Pada waktu guru datang, para siswa telah membaca separuh bagian dari teks.)
    • I had been working with my computer all day, and all I wanted to do was eat some chocolate.
      (Saya telah bekerja dengan komputer sepanjang hari, dan yang ingin saya lakukan adalah makan coklat.)

9 Contoh Soal Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Pilihlah jawaban yang paling tepat untuk melengkapi bagian yang kosong dengan mengetik a atau b.

  1. My nephew was sick since he … outside in bad weather all day.

    1. has been playing
    2. had been playing

    Your answer:

  2. His skin became darker because he … something under the scorching sun without sunscreen.

    1. had been doing
    2. has been doing

    Your answer:

  3. When you … the room, we … the matter of our wages for 10 minutes.

    1. entered, had been discussing
    2. had been entering, discussed

    Your answer:

  4. By the time I asked, my home assistant …

    1. had been getting rid toxic household items of
    2. had been getting rid of toxic household items

    Your answer:

  5. The senior engineer ... the project for a year before he resigned.

    1. had been being managed
    2. had been managing

    Your answer:

  6. Shasa … the diet plan for more than two weeks when finally recognizing it didn’t work.

    1. has been trying
    2. had been trying

    Your answer:

  7. Vina was sad since you … her for a long time.

    1. had not been contacting
    2. had been not contacting

    Your answer:

  8. … his mobile phone conversations for a few minutes when he suddenly opened the door?

    1. Had been you overhearing
    2. Had you been overhearing

    Your answer:

  9. I … on the railway station waiting room for an hour before the train arrived.

    1. had been being sit
    2. had been sitting

    Your answer:

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References:

  1. Past Perfect Progressive Tense. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/past_perfect_progressive.htm. Accessed on October 5, 2013.
  2. Grammar Handbook: Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms. http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/perfectforms/. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
  3. More Tenses. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/moreT.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2013.
  4. Guide to Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/p/g_pastpc.htm. Accessed on November 24, 2013.
  5. Past Perfect Continuous. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html. Accessed on November 24, 2013.
  6. Past Perfect Continuous Tense. http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past-perfect-continuous.htm. Accessed on November 24, 2013.

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49 thoughts on “Past Perfect Continuous Tense: Penjelasan dan Contoh Soal

  1. bryan  

    Coba perhatikan no.1 itu jawabannya A atau B yah???kalau jawabannya A kenapa di kata katanya tertulis HAS been sedangkan di Opsi A nya yg disoal tertulis Has been

    jdi gmna tuh???mohon di balas yah supaya yg lht gk salah jga

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Halo Bryan,
      Maaf ya saya salah menulis a/b nya. Sudah saya perbaiki. Terima kasih informasinya 🙂

  2. Fany  

    postingan ini sangat membantu, terimaksih ya, saya cari contoh untuk tenses yang ini untuk buat buku pembelajaran 🙂

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Sama-sama Fany. Senang bisa bantu kamu melalui contoh di artikel ini 😀 Sukses ya!

  3. Amelia  

    Terimakasih kak, sangat membantu dan mudah dipahami cocok untuk mengulang kembali pelajaran yang sudah lupa thnks!

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Sama-sama Amelia. Saya senang postingan sederhana ini bisa membantu 😀

  4. Diana  

    Terima kasih atas ilmu yang telah diberikan ini. Sangat menyenangkan dan membantu

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Sama-sama Diana, makasih juga sudah baca-baca dan memberikan feedback. Semoga kemampuan bahasa Inggris kita terus bertambah ya ^^

  5. Sia  

    Maaf, mau tanya. Kapan kita menggunakan had been + v-ing dan had been being V3? Terimakasih, sangat membantu sekali 🙂

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Had been v-ing untuk past perfect continuous tense. Untuk had been being v-3 sepertinya tidak lazim Sia, passive-perfect continuous itu bentuk yang tidak disukai.

  6. Ulfa  

    Contoh terakhir ../ all I wanted to do was eat some chocolate .. Kenapa ” was eat ” ya? Kl dgn kata ate saja bs tidak? Jd kalimatnya
    ” all I wanted to do ate some chocolate ”
    Maaf sebelumnya , belum mengerti.

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Hmmm mungkin itu bukan struktur grammar terbaik, tapi itu pilihan kata2 untuk speaking (normal didengar), kalo versi lengkapnya “All I wanted to do was (to) eat some chocolate”, nah “to” tidak disebutkan pada speaking karena dianggap redundant karena sudah ada infinitive sebelumnya “to do”. Lain kalo kalimatnya: “All I wanted is to eat some chocolate.”

      Lihat: https://www.englishforums.com/English/ToDoIsABareInfinitive/xlmk/post.htm
      http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/all-i-wanted-to-do-was-go-out-with-my-friends.2336469/
      http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/all-i-wanted-to-do-was-to-make-you-happy.2934374/

      Contoh sejenis:

      I had been working in the garden all day, and all I wanted to do was sleep. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/moreT.htm

      Kalo langsung “ate” saya rasa kurang terdengar normal saja… “semua yang saya inginkan makan…” kalo dijadiin passive: “beberapa coklat dimakan semua yang saya inginkan” 🙁

      Saya juga masih belajar Ulfa, mudah2an yang saya ungkapkan dari hasil baca-baca tidak salah 🙂

  7. Fafa Febianto  

    Skarang di suru hafalan inggris tense ..eh malah ktiduran tdi malam
    Haduh bahaya mana pda nlom apal

  8. roni ramadhan  

    Bsok saya ujian semester. Saya smster 1 sastra inggris.. Ujian presentasi, dn bagian saya adlh past perfect continous. Ada tips tdak kakanda agar skses mmpresentasikan na.. Soal na saya blm paham btul dgn past perfect continous ini.. Mhon bimbingan na

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Wah maaf Roni baru balas, pasti udah ya presentasinya..
      Saya gak pernah presentasi bahasa Inggris sih, tapi apapun presentasinya saya rasa kita harus paham betul dan menyiapkan jawaban-jawaban untuk pertanyaan yg terprediksi. Presentasikan saja secara terstruktur dari pengertian, rumus, penggunaan, contoh…dannnn harus paham setiap yang di tampilkan/ucapkan 🙂

  9. Murbin Guror  

    well, that’s very interesting for me to learn about this English Grammar, because I want to improve my English Grammar ,I think it’s useful for writing ,Thanks

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      You’re welcome Murbin..sorry for the delay in replying your comment. I’m very glad you found this useful for writing 🙂

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Kamu mau membuat Conditional sentence type 2 atau type 3?
      Gunakan untuk type 2: if + simple past, would + bare infinitive
      type 3:
      Gunakan: if + past perfect, would have + past participle

      Jika tujuan kamu untuk membentuk past perfect continuous tense, saya sarankan tambahkan period of time atau sampai waktu tertentu di masa lampau.

  10. Narsih  

    Maaf,maksudnya kalimatnyaa itu seperti ini : If we hadn’t been ever fall we wouldn’t ever knew how the way to wake up.
    kalimat ini termasuk past perfect continuous atau bukan?

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Bukan Narsih.

      Rumus past perfect continuous tense: had + been + present participle. Coba lihat fungsi past perfect continuous tense di atas.

  11. adinda  

    yang kalimat terakhir kenapa ga “…all i wanted to do was eating some chocolate” ya kak?

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Hi Adinda,

      “eat” yang saya gunakan maksudnya infinitive. Kenapa pakai infinitive (tidak gerund), karena membicarakan rencana (pada saat itu). Gerund sering digunakan untuk aksi: real/concrete/completed; Infinitives sering digunakan untuk aksi: unreal/abstract/future.
      Lalu kenapa infinitive-nya tanpa particle “to”? Sebenernya bisa salah satu dari keduanya (“eat” atau “to eat”). Hanya “eat” untuk menghindari redundancy “to” (… all I wanted to do was (to) eat some chocolate). Bisa dibaca pembahasannya: http://www.englishforums.com/English/ToDoIsABareInfinitive/xlmk/post.htm

      Semoga membantu ya… 🙂

  12. aldi  

    Saya ga ngerti ama kalimat ini:
    “I had been working with my computer all day, and all I wanted to do was eat some chocolate.
    Ko pake was ya ga pake is ” to do was”

    maaf baru belajar.

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Hi Aldi,

      Kalimat itu memuat past events: “I had been working with my computer all day” dan “all I wanted to do was eat some chocolate”. “Eat” disini merupakan infinitive, yang menyatakan “(berencana) makan” pada masa lampau. Past perfect (continuous) tense biasa digunakan bersama simple past tense (ingin makan) dimana past perfect tense menunjukkan kegiatan yang terjadi terlebih dahulu (telah bekerja sepanjang hari).

      Semoga membantu… 🙂

  13. riyan  

    Can’t you had seeing it? Now it’s destructive, disruptive not conductive. Betul ga penulisanya?

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      saya prefer:

      “can’t you see it?”
      atau
      “Had you been seeing it?”
      dan
      “Now it’s destructive, disruptive but non conductive.”

  14. tian  

    makasih ya buat materix,
    aq jdi kebntu bgt 😀

    tpi klo blh contoh2 ditambah ya, biar mkin ngerti
    Thank u so much

    1. Wilma Yulia  

      Hehe contohnya masi kurang banyak ya Tian 🙂
      Selain contoh, sebenarnya saya juga bharap bs meng-updet konten ini secara periodik

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