The Present Perfect vs The Present Perfect Continuous | ALL differences (+ Free PDF & Quiz)

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I'm actually a native English speaker, and an older Russian friend asked me about these a while ago, I didn't know! Of course I know what sounds right, and what should be said, but not the rules. Until today, Tenses knowledge to me were just past present and future, so you have been a great help to a native (present perfect) what a perfect present! Thanks!

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@@JulieJune8 Surely "I will be going to the cinema later" would be future tense?

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@@blue_rangerYes, and no. It depends on who you ask. Your example is considered a future tense by most modern teachers, but to some linguists, it’s more like a present tense. Basically, it boils down to what is considered a tense. In the strictest sense, word endings have to change. It doesn’t with the so-called future tense in English. We can argue that the word “will” simply expresses one’s intention-one’s “will” to do something. This is actually how the word was first used. Grammatically speaking, it acts very much like the word “dare” in “I dare say . . . ”

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You nailed this lesson Lucy. it's also worth noting that we choose the present perfect simple rather than the continuous to emphasize that something isn't short term: -simple: I've worked her most of my life. (long term) -continuous: I've been working here for just a few days. (short term). we can also choose the continuous to stress that something is repeated: -continuous: I've been using the swimming pool since we moved into this neighborhood. (repeated) -simple: I've used the swimming pool since we moved into this neighborhood. (one or two occasions)

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Please explain someone I have slept badly yesterday?? I slept badly yesterday?? What's the difference

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@@thegangsta1526 "I have slept badly yesterday" is wrong because you said when it happened > yesterday. The second one is properly right because you used simple past, which is for a past action finished at some specific point in the past.

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A perfectionist presenting continued perfection out of a present perfect continuous tense lesson. (I am sure this sentence is a mess hahaha but I couldn't resist)

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"Since I've Been Loving You" a well known song of Led Zeppelin. Perfect continuous with stative verb.

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Same with the present continuous in "Mc Donalds - I'm loving it"

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Thanks a lot for the lesson!! That was very helpful. I am still confused about one thing :) When you said that we can use PPC to talk about unfinished actions and PP for finished ones. I am wondering if it's a finished action, why not use the simple past instead? Hope that you can answer my question as soon as possible. I am a novice English teacher. Thanks a lot again.

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We use Past Simple for finished actions when we know when they happened or when it's important, or when we don't want to emphasize the result of those actions on the present. E. g., "I've already watched the film." - it's a result by the moment of speaking. "I watched the film yesterday" - we just give information about the past. We could even say something like "I finished watching the film 10 minutes ago" and it would still be PS because in this exact sentence I just want to give info about the past.

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I think there is another huge difference. I will take the example with the therapist. "She has been seeing a therapist. " means that she has seen him more than once whereas "she has seen a therapist." can mean that she has seen him him once.

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I should disagree. The Present Perfect Continuous form of this sentence would mean that she had been seeing a therapist until the moment this sentence was uttered. It is akin to such a situation: - Hey Lucy, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you everywhere! - Oh I’m sorry, I have been helping my mum with some housework.

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There is a way to make things perfectly clear: She has seen a therapist once. She has seen a therapist many times. Just by adding "once" or "many times". Similarly all the uncertainties and trouble in English can be eliminated by just adding a few words in the sentences. No more changing of the root words because of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, singular vs plural, tenses, gender, individuals vs group, etc.

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Usually, when using the present perfect continuous there's an emotion involved like suprise, anger, etc I've been living here for ten years an I have never met such a nice person. (Here the speaker is surprised) I've been waiting for two hours! (The speaker here is angry and annoyed) Another reason why we used the present perfect progressive in the second example is because it's uncommon to use the present perfect with the word "hour" That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

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