Class 10-3: The Perfect Progressive Tenses
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The perfect progressive tenses say that an event is happening immediately before, up to, until another time or event. The tenses are used to express the length of time of the first event. |
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Rules: Present perfect progressive states the length of time an action has been happening up to the present time. |
Examples: I have been studying for three hours. |
Explanations: He/she started studying in the past and has continued studying up to the present. *How Long? For three hours. |
| Past perfect progressive states the length of time an action happened in the past. | I had been studying for two hours before I stopped for lunch. | An event that had taken place in the past for a certain length of time, and ended before another event in the past. |
| Future perfect progressive states the length of time an action will happen in the future. | I will have been studying for two hours before they arrive. | An event that will happen in the future for a certain length of time and will end before another event in the future. |
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Sentence Structure Formula: Present Perfect Progressive: have + been + (verb)-ing (present participle) Past Perfect Progressive: had + been + (verb)-ing (present participle) Future Perfect Progressive: will have + been + (verb)-ing (present participle) |
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