English Grammar Stories and Exercises

English Grammar

Stories and Exercises

The Perfect Progressive Tenses Series

Present Perfect Progressive

By Really Learn English

English Grammar Stories and Exercises

The Perfect Progressive Tenses

Perfect Progressive Tenses Mixed

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Table of Contents

Present Perfect Progressive (Also Called Present Perfect Continuous) ............ 5

Exercise 1 ........................................................................................................ 6

Present Perfect Progressive Rules ................................................................... 7

Exercise 2 ........................................................................................................ 9

Special Spelling Rules for Adding ¡°ing¡±.......................................................... 12

Exercise 3 ...................................................................................................... 18

Exercise 4 ...................................................................................................... 20

Present Perfect Progressive, Story 1.............................................................. 25

Before Reading ............................................................................................. 25

Romance at the Gym .................................................................................... 27

After Reading ................................................................................................ 29

Present Perfect Progressive, Story 2.............................................................. 36

Before Reading ............................................................................................. 36

The Big Race.................................................................................................. 38

After Reading ................................................................................................ 39

Present Perfect Progressive, Story 3.............................................................. 46

Before Reading ............................................................................................. 46

An Interview with My Idol ............................................................................. 48

After Reading ................................................................................................ 49

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Present Perfect Progressive, Story 4.............................................................. 56

Before Reading ............................................................................................. 56

Friday Night .................................................................................................. 58

After Reading ................................................................................................ 59

Present Perfect Progressive, Story 5.............................................................. 66

Before Reading ............................................................................................. 66

A New Look for Edith .................................................................................... 68

After Reading ................................................................................................ 70

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Present Perfect Progressive

(Also Called Present Perfect Continuous)

PL

E

The present perfect progressive is a form of the verb that shows the action

started in the past and continued up until the present.

We use it to describe:

ES

SA

M

? An action that started in the past and continued up until the present

(The action is either still going on or ended very recently)

(Examples: ¡°I have been studying for two hours.¡±

¡°We have been traveling for three weeks.¡±)

PA

G

OR

R

AN

D

O

M

? Something was happening lately

(Examples: ¡°You have been working too hard lately.¡±

¡°She has been eating lots of sweets recently.¡±)

Examples of typical time expressions:

? recently

? lately

? for

? since

? all morning / day / weekend

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