🔹 What is the Present Perfect Continuous?
It’s a tense used to show an action that started in the past and
continues up to now or was happening recently and has a present result.
It combines
the idea of duration and continuity.
🔹 Structure
Subject + have/has + been + verb(-ing)
✔ I have
been studying.
✔ She has
been working.
🔹 When do we use it?
- To talk about actions that started in the past
and continue now
👉 “I have been living in Maputo for 5 years.”
(= I started 5 years ago and I still live there now.) - To emphasize the duration of an activity
👉 “They have been waiting for over an hour.” - To talk about actions that were happening
recently and have present results
👉 “You’re tired because you have been running.”
🔹 Keywords (often used with this tense)
- for (a period of time) → “for two hours”, “for 10
years”
- since (a point in time) → “since Monday”, “since
2020”
- all day, lately, recently
🔹 Difference from Present Perfect Simple
- Present Perfect Simple → focuses on result
👉 “I have read the book.” (finished) - Present Perfect Continuous → focuses on duration/activity
👉 “I have been reading the book.” (still in progress, or not finished yet)
🔹 Examples
- She has been learning French since
January.
- We have been working hard all week.
- Why are you wet? You have been walking in
the rain!
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