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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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