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Ah. Najih Aunillah
Doni Prasetyo
Khumaidi Abdillah Raviansyah
Mohammad Taufan Hidayatullah
Sholahuddin Al-Ayyubi

English Education Department
Teacher Training and Education Faculty
ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF LAMONGAN

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PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

The Present Perfect Continuous reveals actions that have begun in the past and now continue. English tenses are also used to describe events that began in the past and have just finished. Use 1. actions that have begun in the past and still continue now 2. the action that just stopped Formula: Positive (+) Subject + has / have + been + verb-ing Negative (-) Subject + has / have + not + been + verb-ing Tanya (?) Has / have + subject + been + verb-ing? Example: (+) I have been watching TV for two hours (+) He has been playing football since elementary school (-) Marina has not been learning english for two years (?) Have you been reading a book for an hour? The time statement (adverb of time) used, "For" and "since" are times that are very commonly used in the Present Perfect Continuous Tense
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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to express an action that began in the past and lasted until other actions in the past. Usage: 1. The duration of past actions to a certain time point in the past too 2. Conditional Sentence Type III If it hasn't been raining, we would have played football 3. reported speech Ann: I was crying George: Ann said she had been crying George: Ann said that he had cried Formula Positive (+) Subject + had + been + verb-ing + object Negative (-) Subject + had + not + been + verb-ing + object Tanya (?) Had + subject + been + object? Example of Past Perfect Continuous Tense: He has been living in Jakarta about ten years (+) Have you been living in Jakarta about ten years (-) have been living in Jakarta about ten years? (?) The difference between the Present Perfect Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous is: The Present Perfect Continuous expresses actions that continue until now while Past Perfect Continuous d...
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PAST PERFECT TENSE

We use Past Effect (simple) tense to show an action in the past related to other actions previously in the past. Usage: 1. tells of an action that was completed before other actions in the past 2. Conditional Sentence Type III If + subject + Past perfect + would have + verb III If we had known the answer, we would have told you 3. reported speech Ann: I have searched all the rooms. George: Ann said she had searched all the rooms. George: Ann said that he had searched all rooms for a full discussion of reported speech in various tenses here Past Perfect Tense Formula: Positive (+) Subject + had + verb III + (past participle) + object Negative (-) Subject + had + not + verb III + object Tanya (?) Had + subject + verb III + object? Example - Past Perfect Tense: (+) They have been here before 1945 (-) They have not been here before 1945 (-) (?) Had they been here before 1945? (?) (+) She went to Amsterdam when I called her (+) (-) When I ...
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