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In each of these situations, there is a time period that is still continuing (today,
this morning, this afternoon) and although the actions have already occurred,
they may be repeated again. For example, in the first sentence, it has already
rained but it might rain again.
3. Similar to the previous rule, present perfect can also be used for events
that started in the past and may or may not be continued into the future.
We’ve lived in Beijing for six years.
They’ve been a couple since 2012.
I’ve worked in finance for almost a decade.
Notice the use of “since” and “for.” We often use these with the present perfect.
“For” is followed by a period of time (“for five months”; “for two days” etc) and
“since” is used to refer to a point in time (“since last Friday”; “since 1998”).
Present Perfect Continuous
As the name suggests, this tense includes elements of the perfect and continuous
tenses. Namely, it includes both “have” or “has” and the past participle “been” plus
the verb +ing. It looks like this:
Dostları ilə paylaş: