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Past perfect progressive definition: The past perfect progressive tense (also called the past perfect continuous tense) is an English verb tense that expresses ongoing actions in the past that have ended.

What is the Past Perfect Progressive?

The past perfect progressive is a complicated verb tense.

It is a combination of two verb tenses: the past progressive tense and the perfect tense.

The past perfect progressive tense is mostly used to express actions that started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.

Past Perfect Progressive Tense Examples

Here is a depiction of what the past perfect progressive tense describes.

As you can see, an event or action begins in the past and continues up to another event in the past.

Here are few examples,

• It had been snowing for two hours before the roads were closed.
  • Past action in progress: It had been snowing.
  • Other action in the past: Roads were closed.

• They had been planning their trip for two months