Welcome to our simple guide on Continuous Tense. Here, we’ll look at the Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect Continuous Tenses, and show you some examples. Let’s get started!
Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used to express an action that began in the past and is still continuing in the present.
Present Perfect Continuous Tense example
My hands are dirty. I have been cooking since morning.
It has been raining for the last one hour.
Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to express an action that began in the past and remained continued in the past for a given duration.
Past Perfect Continuous Tense example
My hands were dirty. I had been cooking since morning.
On Monday it had been raining for the last one hour.