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Although you are just now reading the first line of this podcast episode, I have been writing this podcast for several hours so far today. I began around 2:00 in the afternoon and it's now 4:38. I stopped about one hour ago in order to watch the USOpen tennis match that was on TV. Now I'm back; the match I was watching is now over. And now I'm back to writing.
Mariana, one of our Help! Desk
readers, wrote me an email in which she asked for help with verb tenses.
She has been waiting very patiently
for me to answer her question: The present perfect tense consists of two parts. To form it, use -
1. … the proper form of the verb have, and
2.
… the past participle (also known as the
1. … the proper form of the verb have, and
2.
… the past participle (also known as the
3.
... the present participle (also known as
Let's use the verb "feel" as
our example. The result is: have been feeling.
When do we use
each one?
Like present continuous, many present
perfect continuous sentences allow you to include a time expression.
This varies on the sentence. Expressions such as for two hours, lately, recently and many more will fit into your present
perfect continuous sentence . Here are some examples of present perfect continuous from our students' writing: I know I could do better if I tried harder...I'm getting lazier. I have been losing my enthusiasm as I grow older. I've been giving up easily and I haven't been able to stick to anything I do. If you have any questions about this lesson, or if you have been following the tennis matches of the USOpen on TV, please email me your questions and comments (about grammar OR tennis)! So from the ESL Help Desk, thanks for listening to us this week, and remember to email us your questions about English grammar. At the ESL Help Desk, your feedback is our feed.
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