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- She is tasting the soup. ( = is testing its flavour)
Unit II
Present Perfect Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect
Form
I / We / You / They have finished.
He / She / It / has finished.
Have you finished?
Has she finished?
You have not finished.
She has not finished.
Use
We use the Present Perfect for:
a) recently finishes actions whose
result is visible in the present.
Tom has just finished writing the
article.
b) actions which started in the past
and continue up to the present.
We have been friends for twenty
years.
c) actions which happened at an
unstated time in the past.
I have met a lot of interesting people
in my life.
The Present Perfect is usually used
with the following time expressions:
already, yet, just, always, ever,
never, so far.
Present Perfect Continuous
Form
I / We / You / They have been
working.
He / She / It has been working.
Have you been working?
Has she been working?
You havent been working.
She hasnt been working.
Use
We use the Present Perfect Continuous
for:
a) actions which began in the past and
continue up to the present with
emphasis on the duration.
I have been writing this article for two
hours.
b) past actions of certain duration that
have visible results in the present.
They are wet. They have been
walking in the rain.
Both the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous are used with the
following time expressions:
how long
e.g. How long have you been in Rome?
How long have you been building the house?
for (duration)
e.g. I have been in Rome for a week.
We have been building the house for a few months.
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        - She is tasting the soup. ( = is testing its flavour)

                                   Unit II
                Present Perfect – Present Perfect Continuous

           Present Perfect                          Present Perfect Continuous
Form                                          Form
I / We / You / They have finished.            I / We / You / They have been
He / She / It / has finished.                 working.
Have you finished?                            He / She / It has been working.
Has she finished?                             Have you been working?
You have not finished.                        Has she been working?
She has not finished.                         You haven’t been working.
                                              She hasn’t been working.

Use                                           Use
We use the Present Perfect for:               We use the Present Perfect Continuous
a) recently finishes actions whose            for:
    result is visible in the present.         a) actions which began in the past and
Tom has just finished writing the                continue up to the present with
article.                                         emphasis on the duration.
b) actions which started in the past          I have been writing this article for two
    and continue up to the present.           hours.
We have been friends for twenty               b) past actions of certain duration that
years.                                           have visible results in the present.
c) actions which happened at an               They are wet. They have been
    unstated time in the past.                walking in the rain.
I have met a lot of interesting people
in my life.

The Present Perfect is usually used
with the following time expressions:
already, yet, just, always, ever,
never, so far.

Both the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous are used with the
following time expressions:
how long
e.g. How long have you been in Rome?
     How long have you been building the house?
for (duration)
e.g. I have been in Rome for a week.
     We have been building the house for a few months.