PresentPerfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense. The Present Perfect Continuous Tense, also known as Present Perfect Progressive Tense, is used to talk about an action or actions that started in the past and continued up until now. We can use it to refer to an action that has finished but you can still see evidence.
Firstly check that you know how to make the past simple with 'be' (subject + was / were). Then just add verb-ing. Click here to download this explanation as a pdf. Click here for practice on how to USE the past continuous. Here's the positive form: I was sleeping. you were working. he was coming. she was reading 'War and Peace'.
Thepast perfect continuous tense is used to describe an action that began and was still in progress in the past before another past action started. We can also make interrogative sentences negative by adding not between the subject and been, or we can contract had and not into hadn't: Tenses- Download as a PDF or view online for free. 4.Tense Indefinite Continuo us Perfect Perfect Continuo us Present Play (s) Is / Am / Are Playing Has / Have Played Has / Have been Playing Past Played Was / Were Playing Had Played Had been Playing Future Will / Shall Play Will / Shall be Playing Will / Shall Have Played Will / Shall have been Playing Table Of English TensesPRESENTPERFECT TENSE - Download as a PDF or view online for free. Past Continuous Tense. Ivana Djuric Present Perfect - Negative Sentences I Have not = haven't been abroad yet. You Have not = haven't answered my question. He Has not = hasn't been home for five years. She Has not = hasn't found a new job.
Itmeans we use 'will' for all subjects except first person. In passive voice of simple future tense- positive, negative, interrogative and negative interrogative, we use past participle (third form) of verb. Passive sentence- object of the active sentence + shall / will+ be + past participle ( third form ) of the verb + by + subject of the
Thenegative form of the simple present is obtained by adding do not or does not before the base form of the verb: 16 tense active and passive voice (positive, negative, and interrogative) simple past tenses this tense is used to describe an action that has been done or events that have occurred in the past, whether a minute, an hour, a day, aForexample; We were listening to the radio all evening. It was getting darker. This tense is also used with always, continually, etc. for persistent habits in the past. For example, "He was always grumbling". Rules: Helping verb " was " or " were " is used in sentence. 1st form of verb with addition of " ing " is also used in sentence.