PRESENT PERFECT

PROGRESSIVE
(Present Perfect Continuous)
 DEFINITION

• The present perfect progressive expresses an

action that recently stopped or is still going on. It
puts emphasis on the duration or course of the
action
FORMS OF PRESENT PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE
 USES
• To put emphasize in the duration or course of an action (not the result).
Example: She has been writing for two hours.
• To express an action that recently stopped or is still going on.
Example: I have been living here since 2001.
• To express a finished action that influenced the present.
Example: I have been working all afternoon.
 SIGNAL WORDS FOR PRESENT
PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
• all day
• for x years
• since 20xx
• the whole week
• for months
• and so on…

It answers to the question “How long…?”

 Present Perfect Simple Present Perfect Simple
Continuous

Result (what / how Duration (how long)

much / how often) • I have been writing for an hour.

• I have written 5 letters. • I have been doing my

homework. (Meaning: That's how I have
• I have done my homework. (Meaning: My spent my time. It does not matter whether
homework is completed now.) the homework is completed now.)