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Read the text and retell it. Find the cases of the Present Perfect Continuous and comment on them.

Present Perfect Continuous (Progressive).

have been Ving has

 

Affirmative Interrogative Negative
I have been working. Have I been working? I haven’t been working.
He has been working. Has he been working? He hasn’t been working.
She has been working. Has she been working? She hasn’t been working.
It has been working. Has it been working? It hasn’t been working.
We have been working. Have we been working? We haven’t been working.
You have been working. Have you been working? You haven’t been working.
They have been working. Have they been working? They haven’t been working.

 

· Present Perfect Continuous is used to express a durative action connected with the present moment still going on or just finished.

 

I have been learning this poem for an hour already (still going).

Have you been painting the door all this time (just finished)?

· Present Perfect Continuous is used with the prepositions for and since.

The exams have been lasting for two hours.

She has been reading this novel since she came home.

But if the verb cannot be used in the Continuous one must use Present Perfect instead.

 

I have known Sasha since I moved to Kazan.

Tom has been ill for a week already.

Exercises:

Comment on the use of the Present Perfect Continuous.

1. What do you think he’s been doing? 2. I have been wishing to speak to you ever since you returned. 3. Sophie’s been cleaning all day, and I’ve been cooking! 4. You have been calling out in your sleep. 5. Who has been bearing false tales to him? 6. “I’ve been wanting to see you, Collin,” she said. 7. How long has she been going on like this? 8. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for you. I’ve been working on the problem. 9. I want you to understand that everything he has just been saying to you is pure imagination. 10. Oh, Michael, we’ve been seeking for you for hours. 11. “How are you, Mr. Bosinney?” he said holding out his hand. “You’ve been spending money pretty freely here I should say.” 12. You’ve been working too hard. You are off your balance. 13. And here’s the water you’ve been drinking. 14. I have been thinking of your decision since we parted. 15. I sometimes think that Eric’s got consumption. He’s been complaining of pains in his chest and head.

Read the text and retell it. Find the cases of the Present Perfect Continuous and comment on them.

In the evening Mrs. Dursley told her husband that she had had a nice, normal day. She told him over dinner all about Mrs. Next Door's problems with her daughter and how Dudley had learned a new word ("Won't!"). When Dudley had been put to bed, he went into the living room in time to catch the last report on the evening news:

"And finally, bird-watchers everywhere have reported that the nation's owls have been behaving very unusually today. Although owls normally hunt at night and are hardly ever seen in daylight, there have been hundreds of sightings of these birds flying in every direction since sunshine. Experts are unable to explain why the owls have suddenly changed their sleeping pattern." The newscaster allowed himself a grin. "Most mysterious. And now, over to Jim McGuffin with the weather. Going to be any more showers of owls tonight, Jim?" "Well, Ted," said the weatherman, "I don't know about that, but it's not only the owls that have been acting oddly today. Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire, and Dundee have been phoning in to tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they've had a downpour of shooting stars! Perhaps people were celebrating Bonfire Night early — it's not until next week, folks!



But I can promise a wet night tonight."

I Mr. Dursley sat frozen in his armchair. Shooting stars all over Britain? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place?

(from "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling)


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