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Kooyeen wrote: Yankee wrote: however to me the past perfect continuous does something in this sentence that neither the past continuous nor the past perfect simple can doHi Amy,why not?When I went into his room, it was obvious that my five-year-old son had been eating cookies in bed. This sounds...

Yankee wrote: however to me the past perfect continuous does something in this sentence that neither the past continuous nor the past perfect simple can doHi Amy,why not?When I went into his room, it was obvious that my five-year-old son had been eating cookies in bed.When I went into his room,...

I agree that this might not be the most typical example for the usage of these two tenses, however to me the past perfect continuous does something in this sentence that neither the past continuous nor the past perfect simple can do: It suggests duration and also that, although the car-washing...