Present perfect continuous tense and examples
Present Perfect Continuous tense represents the action which started in the past and is still going on.
Present perfect continuous tense forms:
- Subject (I, plural) + have been + verb-ing
- Subject (Singular) + has been + verb-ing
Present perfect continuous tense negative forms:
- Subject (I, plural) + haven’t been + verb-ing
- Subject (Singular) + hasn’t been + verb-ing
Question of Present perfect continuous tense negative forms: Move have or has to the beginning
- Have + Subject (I, plural) + been + verb-ing…?
- Has + Subject (Singular) + been + verb-ing…?
Adverbials of time for Present perfect continuous tense
- for + time
- for + period of time + now
- since + time
- this + time
- all + time
- in the last few + time
- every + time
- because
- over the last + time
- lately
- recently
- today, … …again
- how long
Present perfect continuous tense diagram
Present perfect continuous tense examples
- I have been reading the book for two hours.
- We have been writing composition for one hour now.
- He has been finding the football since the beginning of the class.
- She has been finding the dress since this morning.
- She has been studying in the library for three hours.
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