Name: Top 10 Past Perfect Continuous Patterns in English
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My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about 10 past perfect, continuous patterns.

So before we start today's episode of top words, this is just a review of a grammar point.

So using I've been I'm going to use I've been to introduce each of these.

So for a little bit of grammar review, this means I have been plus a progressive form of the verb meaning I started at some point in the past.

And it continues to the current point in time when we're speaking.

So all of the sentences, all of the patterns I'm going to introduce in this lesson follow that pattern.

Then I'll try to use, um, example sentences with different subjects as well.

The first sentence is I've been thinking I've been thinking so something that you ah started thinking about in the past and you have continued, you maybe started thinking, I don't know, two weeks ago and you thought about a week ago and you thought about a few days ago.

You can say, I've been thinking You could say I've been thinking, Thought that thought and continue to a new idea.

You could say, I've been thinking about and then you continue with the Geren form of the verb.

So, like, I've been thinking about changing jobs.

But I've been thinking about moving to a new apartment.

I've been thinking about starting a new hobby.

So something that you thought about in the past that caused you to worry, and you continued to worry about.

I've been worrying about blah, blah, blah.

My mother says she's been worrying about me for a long time.

We're my boss, has been worrying about this project.

So always this has been or have been, plus worrying about something.

Okay, in another sentence, I've been worrying about you all night.

I've been wanting, and the next pattern is I've been wanting.

So wanting means something You started like you wanted it for the first time in the past.

Like I think I used this in alive a live video.

I said, I've been wanting to see that movie like I've been wanting to see the new Blade Runner.

I think I said that means I started wanting I for the first time.

I thought I wanted to do that or I wanted some object and I didn't get it at that time.

Maybe the next day and the day after that, and the day after that, I still wanted that thing.

So I can say I've been wanting that I've been wanting that.

So, for example, in my sentence, I've been wanting to see that movie for a long time, or he's been wanting to take a day off for ages, or they've been wanting to travel the world for 50 years, something like that.

Yeah, I've been wanting to see that movie I've been studying.

I've been studying this is a pattern that's probably very useful for many people who are watching.

I've been studying means you started studying in the past and you continued to study for a number of years or a number of months, or maybe just a few days.

So this is a pattern that you can use actually, all of these, their patterns that you can use with four and since before the period of time or the length of time.

So, for example, I've been studying English for three years, or she's been studying accounting her whole life.

Or they've been studying gardening for the last six months.

For example, so talking about a thing you have studied for a period of time, you can refer to that continuously with the progressive form or the continuous for another sentence.

I've been studying English for a year I've been hearing about, Ah, the next one.

The next pattern is I've been hearing about I've been hearing about.

Maybe you can use it to talk about, like a new restaurant or a new bar or just something interesting.

Some interesting little piece of information you continue to hear about.

Or maybe you heard about it again a few days later.

Something that here and there, Um, you you heard about a few times.

You can say I've been hearing about mobile block like I've been hearing about this new restaurant that opened recently, or I've been hearing about the upcoming policy changes at work.

Or he said he's been hearing about some bad weather that's going to come this summer, but something that you've been hearing, something that you heard news about in the past multiple times you can say.

I've been hearing about Pablo descendants.

Um, I've been hearing about our new manager.

Okay, I've been listening to, uh next one is also may be useful for your studies, but, um, I think useful for your hobbies, it's I've been listening to I've been listening to S o.

Something that began again began in the past continues to the present.

So this can mean like music that you like, or maybe a news program or a podcast that you enjoy.

So I've been listening to that artist for many years, or he's been listening to his bosses advice for the whole day or, um, she's been listening to her mother shout for three hours.

I don't know, but these air things we've we we are.

We have listened to continuously for a period of time.

I've been listening to something else continuously, in another sentence.

I've been listening to a lot of jazz lately.

I've been talking a lot with The next pattern is I've been talking a lot with I've been talking a lot with or you can say, I've been talking a lot, too is also all right.

But I've been talking a lot with means, um, over an extended period of time.

Or maybe recently there's a person or a group of people or an organization.

Perhaps you have had many conversations with you spoken to that person many times.

So for example, um, he's been talking a lot with a counselor recently, or they've been talking a lot with upper management about the future of the company, for example, or I've been talking a lot with my neighbors lately.

It's been great, so talking a lot with is another pattern that's useful in this grammar point.

I've been talking a lot with my parents this month.

One is a commonly confused when I think the next one is I've been living.

I've been living here or I've been living in a city or country name four or since Baba Block.

So I have been living in the USA for 87 years or she's been living in that city for three months, or they've been living here for almost a year.

A lot of people say, like, can I say like I have lived here for one year or I've been living here for one year.

They mean the same thing really like, especially with the verb to live like I have lived here for five years, and I've been living here for five years.