Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect - Learn English Tenses (Lesson 3)

Hello, everyone. You're back with me new at Anglo-link. This is the third video in our learning the tenses series If you haven't watched the first two videos you may want to go and watch them first In this third video. I'm going to help you understand the differences between Present perfect continuous, "I have been doing" and present perfect simple "I have done" When you're ready we can get started. Right then Present perfect continuous and present perfect Let's look at the formulation of the two tenses In the previous video we looked at how to formulate present perfect continuous Let's remind you I have been playing tennis So the verb "to be" conjugated in the present perfect and then the main verb with "ing" You have been playing tennis He/she has been playing We, you and they have been playing Let's look at present perfect no continuous So it's just the verb "have" and the participle: I have played tennis Easy You have played tennis He/she has played We, you and they have played Right let's look at usage First a reminder: When we use the present perfect continuous, action that started in the past and is still in progress For example: I've been studying all morning I've been doing the exercises since 11 o'clock He has been driving for five hours Let's look at some examples of the present perfect and how they are different from the ones You've just looked at So The present perfect refers to a completed action An action that's complete at the time of speaking. It's not going on anymore Look at the first example: I've studied three sections until now Let's look at the two sentences together: So I've been studying all morning that means You started this morning, and you're still studying Within this time you have completed, you have finished three sections Now this is present perfect: I've studied three sections until now Next example I've already done half of the exercises Let's look at the present perfect continuous: I've been doing the exercises since 11:00 So you started at 11:00, and you are still doing the exercises But within this time you have already finished half of them Present perfect: I've already done half of the exercises And the last example: He has driven 500 kilometers so far Look at the continuous form: He has been driving for five hours He is still driving Within this time he has completed 500 kilometers of driving By the way, so far is a synonym for until now Let's look at the timelines now to make it perfectly clear for you What the difference is between the two tenses are Right Here is the timeline for present perfect continuos An action that started in the past Has been going on until now It's still going on and will go on for a while Remember that you can refer to this tense with these two words since and for Since indicates the exact time that the action started in the past And for tells us how long the action has been going on Let's have a look at the timeline for the present perfect, and you will see that it will look very very different Here's an action that happened in the past It's a completed action at some point in the past we don't know exactly when or we don't want to say exactly when What's important is that the action is complete now at the time of speaking Right then Let's look at some common mistakes You may say or hear I have waited for half an hour Because you're still waiting The action is still going on. You should use the present perfect continuous I have been waiting for half an hour The action is not complete yet Let's look at another example: You may hear or say he has slept since 9 o'clock Once again because the action is going on, is still in progress. He is still sleeping We should be using the present perfect continuous He has been sleeping since nine o'clock Sometimes you may make the reverse mistake For example you may hear or say: Has been snowing twice this week Now the word twice means two times Indicates two finished completed actions It snowed once, stopped. Is snowed again and stopped It's not snowing at the moment Therefore we need to use the present perfect It has snowed twice this week One last example to make sure you really got the difference between these two You may say: She has been writing many books It's okay to say she has been writing for many years. She is a writer But to say the number of books she has already written referring to completed books You need to use the present perfect She has written many books Right That's it for our third video I hope you have found it useful as you know you can now go to our website anglo-link.com To read the explanations and do the exercises that will help you review this point Thank you very much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Bye now

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Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 28 2011