How To Use Perfect Continuous Conditional Edit

PERFECT CONTINUOUS CONDITIONAL

FORM

In type 3 conditional sentences, the perfect form of the present conditional may be used.

If clause (condition)	Main clause (result)
If + past perfect	perfect continuous conditional
If this thing had happened	that thing would have been happening.

FUNCTION

The perfect continuous conditional can be used in type 3 conditional sentences. It refers to the unfulfilled result of the action in the if-clause, and expresses this result as an unfinished or continuous action.

EXAMPLES

If the weather had been better (but it wasn't), I'd have been sitting in the garden when he arrived (but I wasn't).
If she hadn't got a job in London (but she did), she would have been working in Paris (but she wasn't).
If I had had a ball I would have been playing football.
If I had known it was dangerous I wouldn't have been climbing that cliff.

THE PERFECT CONTINUOUS CONDITIONAL TENSE

The perfect continuous conditional tense of any verb is composed of four elements:
would + have + been + present participle
The present participle is formed by taking the base form of the verb and adding the -ing ending.

Subject	+ would	+ have	+ been	+ present participle
He	would	have	been	staying
They	would	have	been	going

TO WORK: PERFECT CONTINUOUS CONDITIONAL

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative	Interrogative Negative
I would have been living	I wouldn't have been living	Would I have been living?	Wouldn't I have been living?
You would have been living	You wouldn't have been living	Would you have been living?	Wouldn't you have been living?
He would have been living	He wouldn't have been living	Would he have been living?	Wouldn't he have been living?
She would have been living	She wouldn't have been living	Would she have been living?	Wouldn't she have been living?
We would have been living	We wouldn't have been living	Would we have been living?	Wouldn't we have been living?
They would have been living	They wouldn't have been living	Would they have been living?	Wouldn't they have been living?