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Perfect Progressive Tense Notes
Perfect Progressive Tense Notes
The present perfect progressive tense shows that something started in the past and is
continuing at the present time.
Subject +has/have been + the present participle of the verb (root + -ing).
Examples:
I had been working at the company for five years when I got the promotion.
Martha had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg.
By the time Sam found an umbrella, it had been raining for ten minutes.
is a verb tense that describes actions that will continue up until a point in the future.
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