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Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous

Del ángel Ortiz Carlos Alexis Josué Olvera Garza

Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous

When to use it?

Present Perfect Continuous

1. Actions that began in the past and continue in the present.2. Actions that began and ended in the past but whose results continue in the present.

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Structures:

-You haven't been working with me-He hasn't been doing this homework-Jan hasn't been reading newspaper for fifteen minutes

+I have been swimming all day+I have been looking for a job for three months+They have been waiting for ten minutes

? Have been he plucking flowers for fifteen minutes?? Have they been whasing the clothes since friday?? Have they been cheating us for two days?

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+I have been swimming all day+I have been looking for a job for three months+They have been waiting for ten minutes

Past Perfect Continuous

The Past Perfect Continuous indicates a past action which started in the past and continued to happen after another action and time in the past. Namely, Past Perfect Continuous tell us "how long the action had continued" . "The duration of the action" is emphasized more in this tense.

? Had they been playing tennis?? Have you been following the recipe instructions correctly?? Have you completed the task?? Had she come late to the school?? Had he spoken English until he went to England?? Had her daugther been eating anything all day?

+They have been being friends since childhood.+Thomas had been trying to repair the phone the whole day.+I had been working for 5 months.+Grandalf had been studying sindarin for 2 years.+Sophia had been studying at the University of California when she got high grades.

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Structures:

-He hadn't been reading a book.-I hadn't been cooking any meal when she came to my Home.-You hadn't been living in Germany.-We hadn't been studying.My friends hadn't been playing tennis.