Present Perfect Progressive

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Present Perfect Progressive

• Have you been wondering what that is?

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What have you been doing?

• Have/has been verbING
• Mary has been living here since last month.
• Im out of breath because I have been running.
• We have been studying the proposals for three
  days.

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Why?

• To emphasize an action in progress that started
  in the past and is still continuing. (duration)
• It has been snowing all day.
• They havent been working very hard since they
  heard the news.

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Is there more?

• To show the result of an action that recently
  finished
• Their faces are red because they have been
  laughing.
• She looks like she has been crying, but in fact,
  she has been cutting onions.

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Any exceptions?

• Progressive verbs only remember the heart and
  head rule
• Do not use be, have, like, love, hate, remember,
  forget, own, possess, see, hear, think, etc.
• Be careful of verbs like taste, smell, feel, etc.

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Who uses this?

• It is more common for native English speakers to
  use the ppp than the pp when given the choice.
• I have been working all day v.
• I have worked all day

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Why?

• It is easier to conjugate.
• No need to learn complicated irregular past
  participles
• Ive been sitting and waiting for three hours
• Ive sat and waited for three hours.

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But

• We cannot always use the ppp in place of the pp.
• Ive been knowing him forever.
• Ive known him forever.

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more

• Ive been seeing that movie before.
• Ive seen that movie before.
• Can you explain why?

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Key words to consider

• Lately
• Recently
• All (day, week, month, year, etc.)
• For
• Since

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What have they been doing?
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How long have you?

• Been playing (guitar, piano, etc)
• Been living in (Granby, Sutton, etc)
• Been studying at this college?
• Been working?
• Been dating/not dating?