PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE Present Perfect Continuous We use the present perfect continuous: For

or an action which started in the past and continuous up to the present Ex: Mr Davis has been teaching for six years. (He began working as a teacher six years ago and he still is) To put emphasis on the duration of an action. To put emphasis on the result of an action. Present Perfect Simple For an action which has just finished.

Ex: They have just made a deal.

EX: She has been painting this picture for two hours.

Ex: He has painted twenty pictures.

FORM: + I / you / they / we/ HAVE BEEN + VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE She / He / It HAS BEEN + VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE HAVENT BEEN or HASNT BEEN + VERB IN PAST PARICIPLE? ? HAVE you BEEN + VERB IN PAST PARICIPLE? HAS she PARICIPLE? Time Expressions: Both the present perfect and the present perfect continuous are used with the following T.E: How long, for (duration), since (staring point), lately/ recently. BEEN + VERB IN PAST

FORM: + I / you / they / we/ HAVE + VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE She / He / It PARTICIPLE HAS + VERB IN PAST

HAVENT or HASNT + VERB IN PAST PARICIPLE? ? HAVE you + VERB IN PAST PARICIPLE? HAS she + VERB IN PAST PARICIPLE? Time Expressions: Already, yet, just, always, ever, never, so far.