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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 4: Grammar Forge · Level 32
Perfect Progressive Verbs
Form and choose had been walking, has been walking, will have been walking.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 32
- Perfect progressive verbs show action that kept going for a stretch of time. Look for words like for two hours, or since breakfast.
- Past: the crew had been painting for two hours when the whistle blew. The action ran up to a past moment.
- Present: the crew has been painting since breakfast, and it isn't finished. Future: by noon tomorrow, the crew will have been painting for six hours.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.L.GC.1.43 — Grammar: Form and use the progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive verb aspects. (Continue)