A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...
We use the past perfect continuous to describe an action or situation that was happening over a period of time up to another past event or point in time. It is often used to give background ...
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