{"id":1720,"date":"2012-06-04T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/SchoolTutoring.com\/help\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:44","slug":"understanding-present-perfect-continuous-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/understanding-present-perfect-continuous-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Present Perfect Continuous Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The present tense locates an event or a situation in present time. Present perfect continuous tense is used to express an action that started in past and is still going on.<\/p>\n<p>Example: They have been living in this city for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Rules<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Has been\u2019 is used with singular subjects<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Have been\u2019 is used with I, you and plural subjects<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Since\u2019 is used definite time e.g. since morning, since yesterday, since 5 o\u2019clock<\/li>\n<li>\u2018For\u2019 is used with indefinite time e.g. for 2 years, 3 weeks, 4 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Positive form: <\/strong><strong>Subject + has \/ have been + First form of Verb with ing + object + since\/for + time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p>1. I have been waiting for you since morning.<br \/>\n2. He has been working here for 2 years.<br \/>\n3. He has been studying for 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Negative form: <\/strong><strong>Subject + has\/ have + not + been+ First form of Verb with ing + since\/for + time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I have not been sleeping for 2 days.<\/li>\n<li>She has not been eating since morning.<\/li>\n<li>He has not been coming to work for 2 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Interrogative form: <\/strong><strong>Has\/ Have + Subject +been+ First form of Verb with ing + object + since\/for + time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have you been working since morning?<\/li>\n<li>Has he been sleeping since evening?<\/li>\n<li>Have you been watching television for over 3 hours?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>SchoolTutoring Academy is the premier educational services company for K-12 and college students. We offer tutoring programs for students in K-12, AP classes, and college. To learn more about how we help parents and students in Leduc visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/tutoring-in-leduc-alberta\/\">Tutoring in Leduc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present tense locates an event or a situation in present time. Present perfect continuous tense is used to express an action that started in past and is still going on. Example: They have been living in this city for five years. Rules \u2018Has been\u2019 is used with singular subjects \u2018Have been\u2019 is used with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1380,1382,1888],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-grammar","tag-presentperfectcontinuous","tag-presenttense","tag-typesofpresenttense"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}