The Present Perfect Continuous Tense


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  • Where’s Kelly?
  • She’s sleeping.
  • She’s been sleeping for a long time.
  • Sam and Paul are talking in the hallway. They
  • have been talking
  • since their class ended.

Difference in Meaning:

  • UNLIKE the Present Perfect, the Present Perfect Continuous is never used to talk about recently finished actions.
  • Susan has mopped the floor.
  • -present perfect
  • (recently finished)
  • 2) Susan has been mopping the floor for 15 minutes.
  • -p.p. continuous; not finished yet

Difference in Meaning:

  • The present perfect focuses more on the result of the action while the present perfect continuous focuses more on the action itself.
  • Tom and Lucy have been painting
  • all morning! (focus on the activity)
  • They have just painted the living
  • room. Doesn’t it look great?
  • (focus on the result)

Note! In English, we don’t usually use stative (non-action) verbs with continuous tenses.

  • Note! In English, we don’t usually use stative (non-action) verbs with continuous tenses.
  • Example:
  • Jean got a headache two hours ago.
  • She still has a headache now.
  • Because “have” is a stative verb, we don’t like to put it in continuous form; so instead, we use present perfect:
  • Jean has had a headache for two hours.
  • She has been having a headache for two hours.

Review:

  • Review:
  • The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous can be often be used in the same circumstance.-especially with the verbs live, work, and study (+when we use since/for)
  • Example:
  • 1) I have worked at ECC for many years.
  • -present perfect
  • 2) I have been working at ECC for many years.
  • -present perfect continuous
  • -In this case, both actions started in the past and continue up to the present time.

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