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    The document provides examples of how to use the present perfect continuous tense in English. The present perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that began in the past and continues in the present. It gives 15 example sentences and instructs the reader to convert the verbs into the present perfect continuous form to practice this tense. The purpose is to show how the present perfect continuous tense can be used to talk about durations of activities and ongoing actions.

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    The document provides examples of how to use the present perfect continuous tense in English. The present perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that began in the past and continues in the present. It gives 15 example sentences and instructs the reader to convert the verbs into the present perfect continuous form to practice this tense. The purpose is to show how the present perfect continuous tense can be used to talk about durations of activities and ongoing actions.

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    3 4 Form: Subject + Have/Has + Been + -ing


    Function:
    to show the duration of an activity that began in the past and
    continues until the present time;
    to talk about something that has been in progress recently or lately

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    Read the following, putting the verbs into the Present Perfect Continuous form.

    1. I (live) …………………………… here since 1928.

    2. The cat (sit) …………………………in front of the fire since tea-time.


    8
    7
    3. I (look) ………………………………at this picture for five minutes, but I can’t see you in
    it.

    4. I’m afraid you (look)……………………………at the wrong one.

    5. I know you (talk) …………………………… about grammar for the last half an hour, but
    10 I’m afraid I (not listen) …………………………...
    9
    6. ………You……………………… (wait) long for me?

    7. Yes! I (stand) ………………………here in the rain for half an hour.

    8. He (learn) ………………………………English for three years, but he can’t even read a

    11 12 newspaper yet.

    9. Nobody has come to see us since we (live) ………………………… in our new house.

    10.What you (do) ………………………………while I have been out? We (sit)


    ……………………here writing our homework, but it’s not quite finished yet.
    14
    13 11. He (work) ………………………………In the post office for twenty years.

    12.Lunch is not quite ready yet, although I (cook) ………………………… all the morning.

    13.She ought to stop work; she has a headache because she (read)
    ……………………………… too long.

    15 14.They are tired because they (work) …………………………………… in the garden since
    nine o’clock.

    15.Look! that light (burn) …………………………… all night.

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