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This is the second video off our series to help you, Mr Language Pretences In the first video, I talked about the differences between present simple.

I do.

I'm present, continues I'm doing I hope you've watched a video.

If you haven't, I recommend you go watch that one first.

Because today we're going to talk about the differences between I am doing president continuous.

And I have been doing That's president.

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So when you're ready, let's get started.

Right then let's look at the differences between President continues I'm doing and present Perfect continues I have been doing starting with formulation First President continues As you remember from the previous video, we need the verb to be in the present tense and the main ver plus i n g I am playing tennis.

You are playing tennis.

He she iss playing tennis.

You we they are playing tennis.

Let's look at present.

Perfect continues As the name indicates Now you need the verb to be in the present.

Perfect tense.

I have been playing tennis.

You have been playing tennis.

He she has been playing tennis.

We you and they half bean playing tense quick recap President continues the verb to be in the present tense plus the main verb with i n g present Perfect continues the verb to be in the present.

Perfect tense.

Plus the main verb with thy INGE.

That's easy.

Let's move on to usage.

When do we use the present?

Continuous And when do we use the present?

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You remember from the first video that the present continuous is for an action in progress.

Remember the examples I'm talking to you now.

You are listening to me at the moment it's rainy present Perfect.

Continuous refers to an action that started in the past on Dhe is still in progress.

So if I tell you how long I've been talking to you, I need to use the present.

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I've been talking to you for five minutes.

We can use the word since to show when the action actually started.

I've been talking to you since 11.

30.

So you're listening to me now, right?

If we say how long you've been listening to me, we switch to the present.

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You've been listening to me for a few minutes.

Last example.

It's raining now.

It started this morning.

It has been raining all morning.

It started when I woke up.

It has been raining since I welcome, right?

Let's look at some timelines to make it even clearer for you.

Look at present continues.

Here is the timeline.

This is now and the action is happening now on.

We'll go on for a little while longer lets the cat present perfect continuous on a timeline.

The action started in the past and has continued until now, and we'll go on a while longer if you say exactly when it started, you used the word since if you say how long it's been going on, you use the word.

So why?

I hope that that's really clarified.

The difference between present continues on present.

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The most common mistake is to use the present continuous instead off the present.

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You're likely to say over to here.

I'm working here for two years.

I'm working here.

Only refers to now if you say how long you need to change it to present.

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I have been working here for two years.

Let's look at another example, you may often say or hear.

I study English for six months and now you know you can't say this because you're saying how long you need to use the present.

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I have been studying English for six months.

Let's look at the next example you may hear we are waiting since two o'clock.

What should we say?

Correct.

We have been waiting since two o'clock and the final example.

But the common mistake is saying something like he is doing his homework since he woke up.

He is doing his homework now, but he has been doing his homework since he woke up accident.

I hope you have found the second video helpful, and you know you can go to our website angling dot com to read the explanations I've just given you.

There will be some exercises you can do to reinforce this point and thank you for watching and see you in the next video.