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    The document discusses the present perfect continuous and past perfect simple tenses. It provides examples of their positive, negative, and question forms. The present perfect continuous is used to talk about an action that started in the past and may still be ongoing or just finished. The past perfect simple is used to talk about an action that occurred before another past action. It also lists common time expressions used with each tense and verb forms.

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    PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS is used to talk:

    1. About an action that started in the past, but that may be just finished or not, to emphasize the
    duration of the action.

    POSITIVE FORM NEGATIVE FORM


    QUESTION FORM
    Full Contraction Full Contraction
    I have been I’ve been waiting I have not been I haven’t been Have I been waiting
    waiting waiting waiting
    You have been You’ve been You have not been You haven’t been Have you been
    waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting
    He/she/it has He’s/She’s/It’s He/she/it has not He/she/it hasn’t Has he/she/it been
    been waiting been waiting been waiting been waiting waiting
    We have been We’ve been We have not been We haven’t been Have we been
    waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting
    You have been You’ve been You have not been You haven’t been Have you been
    waiting visited waiting waiting waiting
    They have been They’ve been They have not been They haven’t been Have they been
    waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting

    With present perfect continuous you can use time expression such as:

    just, for, since, all afternoon BUT NOT ever, never, yet, already

    PAST PERFECT SIMPLE is used to talk:


    1. About an action that happened in the past, before another past action expressed at past simple.
    e.g.: When I got home, I saw that the letter had arrived.
    When he had finished his homework, he went to bed.

    POSITIVE FORM NEGATIVE FORM QUESTION FORM


    I had visited I had not visited Had I visited
    You had visited You had not visited Had you visited
    He/she/it had He/she/it has not Has he/she/it visited
    visited visited
    We had visited We had not visited Had we visited
    You had visited You had not visited Had you visited
    They had visited They had not visited Had they visited

    To talk about past habits and routines that have changed you can use PAST SIMPLE or the expression
    “USED TO”

    Ex: I came back home at 14:30 when I went to high school.


    I used to come back at 14:30 when I went to high school.
    VERB TENSES AND TIME EXPRESSION
    Present simple Usually, normally, every day, every year, often,
    once a week, twice a month, …
    Present continuous At the moment, in this period, now, right now, …
    Past simple Yesterday, last week, last month, in 2010, in
    December, on Christmas day, …
    Past continuous At that moment, while, in that period, …
    Present perfect simple Since, for, yet, already, just, ever, never, so far,
    lately, still, …
    Present perfect continuous just, for, since, all morning, all day, …

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