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Examples: (i) Has he eaten food?

(ii) What have they brought in the bag?

Form of Present Perfect Continuous Tense

The present perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action which started in the past
and is still going on.

Examples : (i) The child has been playing all day.

(ii) The priest has been praying in the temple since morning.

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It is also used with time phrases like 'all day' 'all week' 'all the time' 'since' and 'for' .
Example : The girl has been waiting for her parents since morning.
The form of present perfect continuous tense is: have been/has been + present participle .

Example : The lady has been selling coconuts for three years.
For negative sentences, we write : haven't been/hasn't been + present participle

Example : He hasn't been playing football for five years.

In interrogative sentences, the first part of the verb is put before the subject.

Example : Has the girl been waiting for her parents since morning?

Here are sentences with verbs in different forms of the present tense.

Examples : (i) She plays badminton every evening. (Simple present)

(ii) He is studying now. (Present continuous)
(iii) I have never tasted sushi. (Present perfect)

(ii) She has been singing a song. (Present perfect continuous)

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1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate verbs from the brackets : Analytical Skill
(a) The cake __________ (tastes, is tasting) delicious.
(b) He __________ (is wishing, wishes) me luck for my rent assignment.
(c) Ganesh __________ (has, is having) a good collection of story books.
(d) Mahesh __________ (forgets, is forgetting) his identity card every second day.

(e) Mukul __________ (is disliking, dislikes) his new classmate.

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