PRESENT PERFECT

PROGRESSIVE
Student: Ma.auxiliadora Pazmiño Suarez FON-S-CO-4-1
The "present perfect progressive" is composed
of two elements:
The "present perfect" of
the verb “to be”
(have/has been) The "present
participle" of the
main verb (root+ing).
 AffirmativeAFFI NegativeN Questions
AFFI

In the affirmative we
indicate the subject
followed by the
construction have/has
been, the verb in gerund.
It‘s structural formula is:
Subject + have/has been +
verb(ing) + complement.
The negation falls on the
auxiliary verb "to have" in
the correct conjugation, as
shown in the following
structure:
Subject + have/has not
(haven't/hasn't) been +
verb(ing) + complement.
The questions are formulated
from the subject between the
auxiliary to have and the verb to
be, the negation falls on the
auxiliary to have.
The sentence structure is as
follows:
Have/has (haven't/hasn't) +
subject + been + verb(ing) +
complement.
 EXAMPLE:
AffirmativeAFFI Negative
N QuestionsAFFI

• I have been feeling sick for a
week.
• Carlos and Frankie have been
planning these vacations for
months.
• I have been living here for
one month.
• You have been talking on the
phone for half an hour.
• Dolores hasn’t been doing
her chores.
• I haven’t been eating out
much lately.
• We haven’t been talking
since we broke up.
• Have you been listening to me?
• Hasn’t the lawyer been
investigating the case?
• Have you been sleeping all
day?
• Has it been raining for an
hour in Puebla?
 REFERENCE
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ingles/tiempos-verbales-ingles/present-perfect-continuous/#:~:text=El%20present%20perfect%20progressive%20es,y
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