Has or had been raining?

“It has been raining” implies that it is raining, and has been for some time, as in “It’s been raining all night.” “It has rained,” implies that it is no longer raining, as in “it’s rained since we were last here.” “It has rained” means that the raining has already done.

What does had been raining mean?

Answered 1 year ago · Author has 331 answers and 39.5K answer views. In your sentence had been means that it was raining but isn’t now. It’s past tense.

What tense is it’s been raining all day?

The Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used for an action that began some time in the past and is still continuing. It had been raining all morning. The Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to denote an action that began before a certain point in the past and continued up to that time.

Has been raining or had been raining?

“It has rained” means that it has (at present) rained (at some point or points in the past) and (on each occasion) has probably finished raining. “It has been raining” means that it has (at present) been (at some point or points in the past) between starting to rain and ceasing to rain.

How do you say it’s been raining?

You can either say: “It rained last night / yesterday / a few days ago” (completed) or “It has been raining since Monday / for two hours” (duration). “Since” or “for” are normally used with perfect tenses, “last night” or “ago” or “yesterday” are normally used with the past simple.

Had rained or has been raining?

What does it mean it has been raining for three days?

It has been raining for three days. Means the rain has not stopped. The process of raining is still going on. This tense is used to express continuous action from past to present. It started three days ago but still it is raining today.

Is “it had been raining” a past continuous sentence?

“It had been raining” refers to a continuous state. So, you have combined these phrases incorrectly. The sense of a past continuous sentence is that By time X, state/action Y had been going on for Z amount of time. Here is a model sentence:

Is “it was raining all day yesterday” grammatically correct?

Yes, it is grammatically correct. But usually we don’t use the past perfect or the past perfect progressive in an isolated or singled out context. In this case, you could have just said: It was raining all day yesterday. However, you could use your sentence this way: It had been raining all day yesterday when I left my office late in the evening.

How do you use the word rain in a sentence?

1. It rained a lot (in/for/over) the last/past two days. (Simple past to signal calendar days) 2. It has rained a lot (in/for/over) the last/past two days. (Present perfect to signal the 48 hours leading up to this hour)

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