Hey there,

I was reading a meme on instagram and there was line I couldn't quite understand, can anyone have a go to make me get it , here are the lines: Hermione: Snape's face is so oily several countries want to invade it.. Minerva:only intellectual will get that joke.. Hermione:might as well give up haryy and ron.

Last line doesnt make sense to me.

Is it that, although ron and harry aren't intellectual, they can get the joke. Or that ron and harry are intellectual but Minerva is to give up on them..

What is it actually ?? Whats the role of give up ??

Thanks in advance !!sorry that i asked a question in chats, i didnt realize until now , after i asked it..

@HardikSharma Not sure, but maybe there should be a comma before Harry and Ron, so it's as if Hermie is talking to them: give up on trying to understand that amazingly intellectual joke.

A question about grammar: Past perfect continuous

I get from Cambridge Dictionary (in grammar section): "We use the past perfect continuous to talk about actions or events which started before a particular time in the past and were still in progress up to that time in the past:"

Are these examples good?

Example 1: I had been running when I saw an exotic bird!

Example 2:I had been working on my project when a virus destroyed it!

So, in example 1 I imagine that moment... I am running and in a moment something happens (an exotic bird flying near me which makes me observe it for a moment, until it disappears...) then I follow running.

Did I use past perfect continuous correctly in those examples?

@learnprogramming Feel free to post this as a question on the main site.

Okk, I will do it.

But no, that's not how the past perfect continuous is used (taking your explanations in consideration). Does your book not have any example sentences?

I've never heard of anyone who has learned a language by reading a bunch of "rules".

Whatever.

I have not any book, I took it from Cambridge Dictionary --> Grammar.