przenies sytuacje z terzaniejszosci do przeszlosci:
Tom: 'You are soaking wet.'
Ann: 'I have been walking the dog.'
Tom: 'You were soaking wet.'
Ann: 'I had been walking the dog.'
Yesterday Tom told Ann that she was soaking wet and she said she had been walking the dog.
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Tom: 'I haven't been to Australia before.'
Ann: 'Lucky you - you're going there this summer.'
Tom said he hadn't been to Australia before and Ann told him he was lucky because he was going there this summer.
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Tom: 'We aren't thirsty. We've just had a drink.'
Tom: 'We weren't thirsty. We'd just had a drink.'
Tom said they weren't thirsty because they had just had a drink.
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Ann: 'Tom, your garage is a mess. You haven't cleaned it for years.'
Ann: 'Tom, your garage was a mess. You hadn't cleaned it for years.'
Ann said to Tom his garage was a mess because he hadn't cleaned it for years.
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sa tez sytuacje, w ktorych innych czasow (jak past perfect continuous) nie da sie pominac:
We'd been jogging for about an hour when it started to rain heavily.
Monica went to the doctor's yesterday. She hadn't been feeling well for some time.