Understanding Perfect Progressive Aspect

The video tutorial explains the perfect progressive aspect in English grammar, which combines the perfect and progressive aspects to describe actions that are ongoing and complete. It covers the construction of the perfect progressive using 'have', 'been', and a verb ending in 'ing', and provides examples in past, present, and future tenses. The tutorial also discusses various uses of the perfect progressive, such as indicating duration or continuity of actions.

What two aspects combine to form the perfect progressive aspect?

• Simple and Perfect

• Past and Future

• Perfect and Progressive

• Simple and Progressive

Which word is used along with 'have' and the verb to form the perfect progressive aspect?

• Been

• Being

• Is

• Was

What is the function of the word 'been' in the perfect progressive aspect?

• To denote ongoing action

• To show completion

• To indicate the future

• To form the passive voice

How would you express an action that started in the past and is still ongoing in the present using the perfect progressive?

• I was eating

• I had been eating

• I have been eating

• I will have been eating

In the sentence 'I had been eating cookies', which tense is being used?

• Simple Past

• Future Perfect Progressive

• Present Perfect Progressive

• Past Perfect Progressive

Which of the following sentences uses the present perfect progressive tense?

• I will have been running

• I have been running

• I had been running

• I run

Which tense is used in the sentence: 'I will have been eating cookies for 40 years'?

• Present Perfect Progressive

• Simple Future

• Past Perfect Progressive

• Future Perfect Progressive

What does the perfect progressive aspect allow you to express about an action?

• The action is complete

• The action is simple

• The action is ongoing and its duration

• The action is hypothetical

Which part of the perfect progressive aspect changes with tense?

• The word 'have'

• The ending 'ing'

• The word 'been'

• The verb

What is the main idea of the perfect progressive aspect?

• To describe actions that are complete

• To describe actions that are ongoing

• To describe actions that are ongoing and complete

• To describe actions that are hypothetical