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Present Perfect Continous Tense

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Present Perfect Coninous

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Definition

The Present Perfect Continous is made up of the Present Perfect Tense of the verb to be (have/has been) and the present participle of main verb (verb-ing).

Different from the present perfect tense because it focuses on how long an action happened, or the present results of an action

Uses “have” as the auxiliary to ask questions about how long an action has continued.

Uses “not” between “have” and “been” to make negative present continuous sentences.

Uses “for” and “since” to show the amount of time an action has happened.


Functions

The Present Perfect Continous is used for

an action that began in the past and has been

continuing up to now (and may still be going

on).

Used for an action that began and just

finished in the past.Describes how long an action has continued.

Describes actions that have finished recently

and have results in the present.


Patterns

(+) Subject + have/has +been +Verb-ing +

object.

(-) Subject + have/has + not + been +

Verb-ing + object.

(?) Have/has + subject + been + Verb-ing +

object.


Time signals

For

Since

How long

All morning

All day

Lately

Recently


Examples

1. Jun has been playing football for two hours.

2.

I have been waiting for

you since two hours ago.

3. Mr.Leon has not been

teaching Math in Junior

High School since 2003.


Exercises

Change sentences into positive,negative and

interrogative !

1.(+) They have been playing with kittens all

afternoon.

(-) ___________________________________.

(?) ________________________________

2. (+) ___________________________________.

(-) Mrs.Jane has not been sitting here

for thirty minutes.

(?) _______________________________________

They have not been playing with kittens all afternoon.

Mr.Janes has been sitting here for thirty minutes.

Has Mr.Jane been sitting here for thirty minutes?

Have they been playing with kittens all afternoon?


Exercises Cont’D

3.

(+) _______________________________________

(-) ______________________________________

(?) Has not Mr.Gael been driving all

morning?

Mr.Gael has been driving all morning

Mr.Gael has not been driving all morning.


Quizzes

Wake up! You

_________________ sleeping

long enough.It’s time

to get up.

2. It ____________ raining all day.It’s

still raining right now.

3. The telephone has been

________ for almost a minute.

Why doesn’t someone answer it?

1. ..

Have been Has been

ringing


Quizzes Cont’d

4. Izzie’s family ___________________

living in Paris since last June.

5. It’s midnight.I

______________________ for five

straight hours.No wonder I’m getting tired.

6. The baby is crying.

She ________________________ for

almost ten minutes.I wonder

what’s wrong.

Have been Have been studying Has been crying


Quizzes Cont’d

7. My Uncle ____________________

about buying a used car from

the dealer.Do you think it’s a

good idea?

8. Your cooperation proposal

_____________________ by my

boss.

9. Ted has _____________ a short

story for about an hour.

Has been thinkingHave been reading Been writing


Quizzes Cont’D

10.We haven’t __________________ that song for along time.

11. He _________________ listening to the music since 9 p.m.

12.They have ___________________very seriously.Been singing

Has been

Been discusing


References

Schrampher,Betty Azhar.1989.Understanding And Using English Grammar.Second Edition.Prentice Hall Press.New York

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

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