Present Perfect Progressive Lecture

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Verb Tenses and Passives

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University of California, Irvine

Verb Tenses and Passives

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Curso 1 de 4 em Specialization Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation

This is the first course in the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation specialty. In this course, you will review the verb tenses that you learned in beginning English classes and learn about a few tenses you may not know very well. In all, you'll cover all 12 of the English verb tenses and passive verb forms. Most importantly, you'll learn how to blend these tenses, which is what native speakers frequently do. This course is vital to your becoming a more fluent English speaker. Please note that the free version of this class gives you access to all of the instructional videos and handouts. The peer feedback and quizzes are only available in the paid version.

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Perfect Progressive Tenses

This week, you'll learn about the final three verb tenses in English. Then you will be familiar with all 12 English verb tenses. These will combine the perfect tenses with the progressive tenses. Because you already know those tenses, learning these new ones should be fairly easy.

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Present Perfect Progressive Lecture7:57

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Tamy Chapman
Instructor, International Programs
University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Nicole Jacobs
Instructor, International Programs
University of California Irvine Extension
Brad Gilpin

The present perfect progressive.

You already know that we form the present perfect progressive with have,

or has, been, and a present participle, or verb with ing.

To make a negative statement, we simply put not between have or has and been.

To form a question, we are going to switch the subject and the helping verb

so it would become, have you been studying a lot of grammar lately?

In this lesson,

I'd like to discuss three main uses of the present perfect progressive.

I'll show you three quick videos to help me explain these uses.

Let's check out the first video, which explains the first use.

Here we go.

I've been running for twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes to go.

Let's do this!

>> This example illustrates the first use of the present perfect progressive.

Which is to talk about the duration of an activity in progress right now

that started in the past.

I started running twenty minutes ago.

I am still running now.

I have been running for twenty minutes.

We can also use since with this use.

It's important to remember that with this use since and

four the action is still taking place.

Let's take a look at another short video that will show us the second

use of this tense.

[SOUND] Hello, I'm actually yeah,

can I call you right back?

Because I'm, I've been running and I'm really out of breath.

A second use of the present progressive is to talk about inactivity

that started in the past but just ended at the moment of speaking.

Unlike the first use that we talked about in which the activity is still going.

I have been running, that's why I'm really out of breath.

I just stopped with this use the evidence

of the activity is visible just take a look a these pictures.

It is obvious That I have just finished running.

Okay let's check out the third video which explains the third use.

>> Hey, I've been meaning to tell you.

You look really fit these days, >> Thank you,

I've been running a lot lately.

Okay this last video shows us the third use of the present perfect progressive.

Which is to talk about a recent habit.

Clearly I'm not running right now.

You saw me I'm wearing normal clothes, right?

But I have been running a lot lately.

In fact, I ran on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Even though I'm not running right at this moment, I can use the present perfect

progressive to say that I have been running a lot lately, or

recently you may even hear these days.

All right, let's quickly summarize

the reasons that we use the present perfect progressive.

The first use is to talk about the duration of an activity in progress

using since or for.

For example, you've been watching this video for six minutes.

I'm sure you're getting a little tired.

The second use is to talk about an ongoing activity

that has just ended in the moment of speaking.

For example, after this video I will probably say I've been

explaining grammar and my head hurts so now I can go relax and be lazy.

And the final reason that we use the present perfect progressive

is to talk about a recent habit.

We can also use recently and lately with this use.

For example, you've been learning a lot of new grammar lately,

careful, remember you should not use stative verbs in any progressive tense.

When they express a state.

Sometimes a stated verb can express an action.

And then it's okay.

But if it's expressing a state do not use it with ing.

For example I have been knowing you for three years.

No, please don't say this.

You could just say, I have known you for three years.

And that sounds great.

There are other verbs with non-continuous meanings that

are not necessarily stative verbs.

It could be tricky to try to use these verbs in the present perfect progressive.

These are verbs like drop, lose, miss the bus, and find.

There are others, of course, but these are some examples.

With these types of verbs, we don't necessarily

express an ongoing activity or a continuous activity.

We can however express an activity that is repeated over time.

Let's take a look at an example to see what I mean

Imagine Jake says, you're late, where have you been?

I can't say I have just been missing the bus.

That's not correct because when one misses the bus,

it's an action that happens immediately and then it's over.

It's not ongoing.

So, we could express this with the present prefect or the simple past.

I can say, I have just missed the bus or I just missed the bus.

However, there are ways in which we can use these

types of verbs in the present perfect progressive.

For example, my boss is unhappy because

I have been missing the bus lately and have been arriving late to work.

This is a grammatically correct sentence,

because now we are expressing a recent habit.

Remember that third use of the present perfect progressive.

It's okay to use this types of verbs with that use, using lately.

Or recently.

Okay, I've been teaching you the present perfect progressive.

But our time is up now.

So thank you for listening.

See you next time.

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