Advanced Tenses: Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect Continuous

have/has + been + verb-ing

Use: action that started in the past and continues now, or recently stopped.

• I have been studying English for 3 years.
• It has been raining all day.
• She looks tired. She has been working hard.

Past Perfect Continuous

had + been + verb-ing

Use: action in progress before another past event.

• I had been waiting for an hour when the bus finally came.
• She was tired because she had been running.

Future Perfect Continuous

will + have + been + verb-ing

Use: duration of an action before a future point.

• By June, I will have been living here for 10 years.

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