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Perfect Progressive Tense - Basic English Grammar for Competitive Exams - Banking Exams

  • The perfect progressive tense describes actions that repeated over a period of time in the past, are continuing in the present, and/or will continue in the future.
  • The present perfect progressive tense tells you about a continuous action that was initiated in the past and finished at some point in the past; however, the action has some relation to the present time. Use have/has + been + ing.
    • It has been raining, and the street is still wet.
    • I have been running, and I am still tired.
    • She has been practicing the piano, and she is much better now.
  • The past perfect progressive tense illustrates a continuous action in the past that was completed before another past action. Use had + been + ing.
    • It had been raining, and the street was still wet.
    • I had been running, and I was still tired.
    • She had been practicing the piano, and she had gotten much better.
  • The future perfect progressive tense indicates a continuous action that will be completed in the future. Use will + have + been + ing.
    • By tonight, it will have been raining several hours, and the street will be very wet.
    • By next summer, I will have been running for almost a year, and I will be fit and healthy.
    • By the time of the concert, she will have been practicing the piano for several months, and she will be much better.

Q. Choose the incorrect sentence from the following.
(i) I have been sleeping all day today.
(ii) They will have been walking for almost an hour by the time they arrive at their destination.
(iii) She have been eating a lot recently.

have → has

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