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Below is a table illustrating the perfect progressive tenses in English:

Tense Structure Example

Present Perfect Subject + have/has + been + She has been studying for two hours.
Continuous present participle

Past Perfect Subject + had + been + present They had been waiting for hours when the
Continuous participle bus finally arrived.

Future Perfect Subject + will have + been + By this time next week, she will have been
Continuous present participle working here for ten years.

These perfect progressive tenses combine elements of both the perfect aspect (indicating
completion or duration) and the progressive aspect (indicating ongoing or continuous action) to
convey actions or states that have been ongoing over a period of time leading up to the present,
past, or future.

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