PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE CONTINUOUS and PRESENT PERFECT

1
PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE (CONTINUOUS) and
PRESENT PERFECT
2
Present Perfect Progressive

• Actions that started in past, continue to present
  and maybe continue in the future. (Actions
  havent finished or have been completed recently)
• It has been snowing all day.
• Ted has been looking for a job for a year and
  hasnt found one yet.

3

• How long has the counter been marking the time?

4
How long has the money been falling?
5

• Actions that have stopped recently and we can see
  a sign from that action.
• She has been working all night with the report.
• (The report is completed and she looks tired.)
• It has been raining.
• (Its not raining right now but the floor still
  is wet)

6
Present Perfect Progressive

• Repeated actions that started in the past.
• Verbs emphasizing physical actions as hit, punch,
  knock, jump, etc.

7

• How long has Jimmy been running?
• How many times has Jimmy won the race?

8
Sometimes we can use Present Perfect or Present
Perfect Continuous and the meaning is the
sameWe have lived in CT for 3 years.We have
been living in CT since 1997.
9
Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Progressive

• Present Perfect
• Emphasizes on a permanent event.
• They have read a book about philosophy.
• (They finished reading the book.)

• Present Perfect Progressive
• Emphasizes on a temporary event.
• They have been reading a book about philosophy.
• (They are still reading the book.)

10

• Present Perfect
• We want to know
• How much someone has done something
• How many times someone has done something
• How many things someone has done
• She has cooked and cleaned all day.
• We have met twice a week for two months.

• Present Perfect Progressive
• We want to know or talk about...
• How long something has been happening.
• I have been reading the
• New York Magazine for two months.

11

• Created by
• Claudia Bedoya-Rose, Ed.M.
• Gateway Community College
• Spring 2000