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🔰Past perfect continuous 🔰الزمن الماضي التام المستمر 🔻We use the past perfect continuous to talk about actions or situations which had continued up to the past moment that we are thinking about, or shortly before it. نستخدم الزمن الماضي التام المستمر للحديث عن المواقف التي استمرت خلال فترة من الماضي الى لحظة التفكير فيها، أو قبلها بقليل ✨At that time we had been living in the caravan for about six months. ✨When I found Emily, I could see that she had been crying. ✨I went to the doctor because I had been sleeping badly. 🔻How long? past perfect continuous, not past continuous 🔻استخدم صيغة التام المستمر لا المستمر للتعبير عن مدة الحدث We use a past perfect continuous, not a past continuous, to say how long something had been happening up to a past moment. نستخدم الزمن الماضي التام المستمر، و ليس الماضي المستمر، للتعبير حتى مدة حدوث فعل حتى لحظة محددة في الماضي. 🔹We’d been walking since sunrise, and we were hungry. (Not We were walking since sunrise ...)✘ ◽️When she arrived, she had been travelling for twenty hours. (Not ... she was travelling ...)✘ 🔻Continuous and simple: differences 🔻الفرق بين صيغة المستمر و البسيط Continuous forms are mostly used to talk about more temporary actions and situations. When we talk about longer-lasting or permanent situations, we prefer simple forms. تُستخدم صيغ الاستمرار غالباً للحديث عن مواقف و أحداث مؤقتة. عندما يكون الحدث أطول أو دائم فيُفضل إستخدام صيغ البسيط. قارن: 🤔Compare: 🔹My legs were stiff because I had been standing still for a long time. ◽️The tree that blew down had stood there for 300 years. ➖Continuous forms generally emphasise the continuation of an activity; we use simple tenses to emphasise the idea of completion. تُستخدم صيغ الاستمرار عموماً للتأكيد على إستمرارية الحدث؛ بينما تُستخدم أزمنة البسيط للتأكيد على فكرة اكتماله. 🤔Compare: 🔹I had been reading science fiction, and my mind was full of strange images. ◽️I had read all my magazines, and was beginning to get bored. ➖Some verbs are not normally used in continuous forms, even if the meaning is one for which a continuous form would be more suitable. بعض الأفعال تكون عادةً لا تُستخدم في صيغة المستمر، حتى لو المعنى كان أكثر ملاءمة. ✨I hadn't known her for very long when we got married. (Not I hadn’t been knowing her ...)✘ @EnglishGrammarSecrets