There are a few different types of past tenses, and the past perfect continuous tense is one that you should know. Learn how to recognize and use the past perfect continuous tense in your writing.

1. Action that began in the past and continues into the present Refers to actions that started at some point in the past and are still happening or have just finished with relevance to the present.

These tenses can help you write about an upcoming action that hasn’t happened yet. Let’s take a deeper look at the future perfect continuous tense. What is the future perfect continuous tense? The ...