Like all continuous tenses, the present perfect continuous tense can not be used with stative verbs that describe a subject’s state or feeling like want, need, love, or hate. Here’s a tip: Want to make sure you’re using the present perfect tense correctly in your writing? Grammarly ca...
The present perfect continuous (also known as the present perfect progressive) is a verb tense used to talk about something that started in the past and is continuing at the present time. The formula is [have/has] + [been] + [present participle (verb + -ing)]. Words that mark time, ...
Write with Grammarly How to form the present perfect continuous The formula for the present perfect continuous tense is has/have been + [present participle (root form of verb + -ing)]. Recently and lately are words that we often find with verbs in the present perfect continuous tense. Mia...
Like all continuous tenses, the present perfect continuous tense can not be used with stative verbs that describe a subject’s state or feeling like want, need, love, or hate. Here’s a tip: Want to make sure you’re using the present perfect tense correctly in your writing? Grammarly ca...