Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
- FORM
- HAVE/ HAS + BEEN+ PRESENT PARTICIPLE (-ING)
- Affirmative: I have been working a lot
- Interrogative: Have you been cooking all day?
- Negative: I haven't been sleeping
- USES
- actions which started in the past and continue in present
- I have been living here for years
- to focus on the duration and the process of an action
- It's been raining for a week now
- temporary actions up to present, they could be incomplete or unfinished
- I have been looking for my glasses
- Don't use it with state verbs
- She has known about the accident
- Don't use it to say how many times an action has happened
- I have been visiting this city three times ---wrong / She has visited this city three times ---right
- Used with HOW LONG to ask for duration of the action
- How long has she been working here?