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• We often use the Present Perfect Continuous: TIPS
a for longer actions that started in the past and continue in • We often use these words with the Present Perfect Simple
the present: Liu Zhang has been working in Shanghai for and Present Perfect Continuous: for, since, just, yet, already, still,
twenty years. ever, never, recently, lately.
b for longer actions that have recently finished, but have • We also use the Present Perfect Simple with this week/month,
a result in the present: Today I've been cycling around etc. and this morning/evening, etc. if it is still that time of day.
the Pudong area of the city, and I'm both exhausted and
• We can't use the Present Perfect with words/phrases that talk
exhilarated by the experience.
about a finished time period (last year, in 1992, a week ago, etc.).
c for actions that happened repeatedly in the past and still
HOW LONG? OR HOW MANY?
happen in the present: I've been coming to China for
nearly 25 years. • We usually use the Present Perfect Continuous to talk about
how long something has been happening: My company has
• Look at this sentence and the diagram: Liu Zhang has been
been building skyscrapers here since 1993.
working in Shanghai for twenty years.
To make questions for this meaning, we use How long:
has been working for twenty years • How long has your company been building skyscrapers
here?
1 • We usually use the Present Perfect Simple to talk about how
past twenty NOW future many things have been completed: This year we've built five
years ago new apartment blocks.
To make questions for this meaning, we use How many
(+noun): How many new apartment blocks have you built
• We make the Present Perfect Simple with: this year?
subject + have/'ve or has/'s + past participle.
TIP
I've known Rob for about ten years.
• For state verbs we must use the Present Perfect Simple with
He hasn't called me since Friday. How long: How /orig have you had your car? not 1-1-mv long have
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you been having your car?
• We make the Present Perfect Continuous with:
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subject+ have/'ve or has/'s +been+ verb+ing.
We've been living here since 2010.
She hasn't been working very hard.
- Problems on the phone 70 EJ p63
Who have you been talking to?
TALKING ABOUT PHONE PROBLEMS
SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS? • • •
There's a bit of a delay on the line.
• We often use the Present Perfect Simple to say that we
Sorry, you're bre·aking up a bit.
have completed something or that something has been • • • •
I didn't catch all of that.
completed: I've done my homework. (the homework is
I'm just about to run out of credit.
finished now). Sorry, it's a bad line.
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• We often use the Present Perfec;t Simple with verbs that You'll have to speak up a bit.
describe short actions (break, start, find, lose, buy, stop, The receotion isn't very good here.
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finish, etc.): I've broken my glasses. not/\'() been breaking m;' Sorry, I didn't get any of that.
I ke.ep losing you.
glasses. • • • •
Sorry, we got cut off.
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• We often use the Present Perfect Continuous to I think my phone's about to die.
emphasise the action we've been doing: I've been doing
ASKING PEOPLE TO CALL YOU BACK
my homework. (we don't know if the homework is finished • • • •
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Shall I call you back on (the hotel's) landl1ne?
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or not). '
Would you like me to phone you back?
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• We often use the Present Perfect Continuous with verbs that Do you want me to give you a ring later?
describe longer actions (learn, study, rain, try, play, read, wait,
etc.): I've been learning English for six years. TIP
• Break up = lose part of the signal: speak up = speak louder.
• With work and live, both forms are possible: My sister's
worked/been working here for ages. She's lived/been living in
London since 2011 .
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