Present Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect Simple & Present Perfect Continuous

โครงสร้างประโยค Present Perfect Simple

•S + HAVE,HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE

โครงสร้างประโยค Present Perfect Continuous

•S + HAVE,HAS + BEEN + VING

Present perfect simple or Present perfect continuous

Choose the present perfect simple or present perfect continuous to complete the sentences below. If both tenses are possible, use the present perfect continuous.

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I ________and my legs are really tired now.

• 've been cycling

• 've cycled

• We use the present perfect continuous with dynamic verbs for situations which started in the past and have not finished or have just finished.

• We use the present perfect continuous when the present result comes from the process of doing the action: my legs are tired because I have been cycling.

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I'm sorry I'm late, _______for a long time?

• have you been waiting

• have you waited

• We can use both the present perfect simple or continuous to talk about situations that started in the past and have not finished, but the present perfect continuous is more common when the verb is dynamic (action verbs).

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How long _______Peter?

• have you known

• have you been knowing

• We can use both the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous with how long, for, since, recently, lately to talk about situations that started in the past and still continue.

• But we can only use the present perfect simple with stative verbs, and know is a stative verb.

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Somebody ______ my cookies. There are none left.

• has been eating

• has eaten

• When we use the present perfect simple for a past finished action, we focus on the completion of the action; i.e. the action has been completed (=there are no cookies left). When we use the present perfect continuous we focus on the duration of the action; the action has been going on for some time and maybe it's been completed or maybe not.

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Somebody ______ my cookies. There are very few left.

• has been eating

• has eaten

• When we use the present perfect simple, we focus on the completion of the action, i.e. the action has been finished. And when we use the present perfect continuous we focus on the duration of the action; the action has been going on for some time and maybe it’s been finished or maybe not. If there are some cookies left, it means that the action has not been completed, and this is why we need the present perfect continuous.

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How many books ______ ?

• has she written

• has she been writing

• We use the present perfect simple to talk about how many things or how much of something we have done (how many books).

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She must be tired. She ______ all afternoon.

• has written

• has been writing

• We use the present perfect continuous with action verbs (dynamic verbs) to talk about situations that started in the past and have not finished or have just finished.

• With the present perfect continuous, we emphasize the duration of the action: we have been doing something all morning, all day, etc.

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I think I

chocolate since I was born.

• 've been liking

• 've liked

• We can use both the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous with how long, for, since, recently, lately to talk about situations that started in the past and still continue.

• But we can only use the present perfect simple with stative verbs, and like is a stative verb.

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I _______ all afternoon? I _______ 5 chapters.

• 've been reading / 've read

• 've read / 've read

• 've been reading / 've been reading

• 've read / 've been reading

• We use the present perfect continuous with dynamic verbs for situations that started in the past and are still going on or have just finished. We focus on the duration of the action (all afternoon).

• We use the present perfect simple when we talk about how many things or how much of something we have completed (how many chapters); we are focusing on the completion of the action.

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They ______ for months, and they

three countries so far.

• have been travelling / have been visiting

• have travelled / have been visiting

• have been travelling / have visited

• have travelled / have visited

• ➪ We use the present perfect continuous with action verbs (dynamic verbs) to talk about situations that started in the past and have not finished or have just finished. In this sentence the verb travel is dynamic and we focus on the duration of the action (for months).

• ➪ We use the present perfect simple to talk about how many things or how much of something we have done. We focus on the completion of the action, i.e. how many things we have finished doing.