past perfect progressive - form Zurück Weiter how you build the past perfect progressive: positive and negative statements: had + past perfect form of “be” + present participle–> had + been + infinitve + -ing e.g. I had been working. He had been working. You hadn’t been swimming. They hadn’t been swimming. questions:The auxiliary verb “had” is swapped by the subject and is put at the beginning of the question. e.g. Had I been working? Had you been working? Hadn’t he been swimming? Hadn’t we been swimming?