Name: Practice Present Perfect Continuous Tense | English Grammar Course
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T19:45:04.000Z
Duration: 9 min 4 s
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The imperative

Let's start this checkup of the present perfect continuous tense.

There's a lot to do, so let's get started.

In this checkup, we will talk about the present perfect continuous tense.

This tense can be used to describe an event

that started in the past and continues in the present.

For this tense, what we do is we first look at the subject, 'he'.

The next sentence says, 'You haven't _blank_ for a year.'

Again, what we do after that is add 'been'.

Next, it says 'They _blank_ working all day.'

So the verb '-ing' has already been provided for you.

Should we use 'have'? or should we use 'has'?

Now if you want to make this negative, you can say,

Now find the mistake in the next sentence.

Remember, we need to add '-ing' to the end of the verb.

So what's in the middle of those two words is the mistake.

However, in this sentence, the base form of the verb 'eat' was used.

All right, good job. and let's move on to the next practice.

In this practice, we'll take a look at the present perfect continuous tense,

And see how it expresses an action that has been happening recently or lately.

Then don't forget we need to have 'been'.

So we say, 'We have not' or the contraction - 'haven't'.

'We haven't' Don't forget 'been', and then verb '-ing'.

Finally, we move on, let's try to find the mistake.

'We has been riding bikes to school recently.'

For 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they', we have to say 'have been', not 'has been'.

'We have been riding bikes to school recently.'

The lately is placed wrong in this sentence.

In this checkup, we'll talk about the present perfect continuous tense

and how it expresses an action that stopped recently

The verb here is 'exercise'. And the subject is 'I'.

Do we use 'has' or 'have' for the subject 'I'?