{"id":1995,"date":"2017-03-18T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2017-03-18T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T16:59:27","slug":"present-perfect-continuous-tense-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/present-perfect-continuous-tense-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Present perfect continuous tense overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The present perfect continuous tense is used to talk about actions and situations that started in the past and have continued up to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Form: <strong>Subject + has \/ have + been + -ing form of the verb<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been gardening since morning.<\/li>\n<li>It has been raining since yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>We have been living in this city for 25 years.<\/li>\n<li>The boys have been playing since morning.<\/li>\n<li>She has been knitting for hours.<\/li>\n<li>The child has been sleeping since morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Difference between present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses<\/h2>\n<p>Both present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses can be used to talk about actions and events that started in the past and have \u00a0continued up to the present.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have lived in this town for ten years.<\/li>\n<li>We have been living in this town for ten years.<\/li>\n<li>I have worked with them for ten years.<\/li>\n<li>I have been working with them for ten years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The present perfect tense can be used to talk about finished events. The present perfect continuous tense cannot be used to talk about finished events.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have watered the plants. (I have finished that job. I am free now.)<\/li>\n<li>I have done my homework. (I am free now.)<\/li>\n<li>I have been watering the plants. (= I am still watering the plants.)<\/li>\n<li>I have been doing my homework for two hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present perfect continuous tense is used to talk about actions and situations that started in the past and have continued up to the present. Form: Subject + has \/ have + been +&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-present-perfect-continuous-tense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}