I have been singing all day. She has been reading. Some people have been in government since 1999. The lecturer has been teaching at UNILAG for eight years. He has been sleeping in the other room. The ...

We can use the present perfect continuous to: 1. talk about an activity which started in the past and is still going on now: He has been working here for three years. He started working in McCarthy's ...

Whether teaching or learning the present perfect, it is often useful to present the two verb aspects in a contrastive way. Compare the following: 'Dick Francis has been writing novels since 1957. In ...

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We will recall that the simple progressive tenses — also called the continuous tenses — give us the sense of an action taking place at a particular time in the present, in the past, or in the future.