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The Present Perfect Continuous: What you've been doing, are still doing, or just stopped

have been + V-ing is the ultimate tense in English for 'describing processes.' It tells the other person how long an action has been going on, whether it's still happening now, or if it has just stopped but the traces are still there. Using practical, real-life examples, this article teaches you how it shares the workload with the Present Perfect tense, and gives you a handy rule of thumb you can take with you to tell them apart.