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Let's start this checkup of the present perfect continuous tense.

There's a lot to do, so let's get started.

In this checkup, we will talk about the present perfect continuous tense.

This tense can be used to describe an event

that started in the past and continues in the present.

Let's take a look.

The first sentence says,

‘He has _blank_ all week,’

And the verb is ‘sleep’.

For this tense, what we do is we first look at the subject, ‘he’.

For ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘it’, we put ‘has’.

Then, we add ‘been’. ‘has been’.

Finally we add ‘-ing’ to the end.

‘He has been sleeping all week.’

The next sentence says, ‘You haven't _blank_ for a year.’

and the verb is ‘travel’.

Now, this is the negative form.

So you see the contraction - ‘haven't’.

‘You have not’ or ‘You haven't’.

Again, what we do after that is add ‘been’.

Then, do you remember what to do?

Add ‘-ing’ to the verb.

‘You haven't been traveling for a year.’

Next, it says ‘They _blank_ working all day.’

So the verb ‘-ing’ has already been provided for you.

Now, take a look at the subject.

The subject is ‘they’.

Should we use ‘have’? or should we use ‘has’?

The correct answer is ‘have’.

Then what do you put?

Remember, we put ‘been’.

‘They have been working all day.’

Now if you want to make this negative, you can say,

‘They haven't been working all day.’

Now find the mistake in the next sentence.

‘My friends have been watch TV.’

‘My friends have been watch TV.’

What's the mistake?

Remember, we need to add ‘-ing’ to the end of the verb.

So we should say,

‘My friends have been watching TV.’

Next, ‘Sal did talking for 10 minutes.’

Sal is a ‘he'.

And ‘talking’ is already there for you.

So what's in the middle of those two words is the mistake.

For ‘he’, we use ‘has’.

So we say ‘has been’.

‘Sal has been talking for 10 minutes.’

‘He has been to eat for an hour.’

‘He has been’ That's correct.

However, in this sentence, the base form of the verb ‘eat’ was used.

Instead, remember we need ‘-ing’.

This is the correct answer.

‘He has been eating for an hour.’

All right, good job. and let's move on to the next practice.

In this practice, we'll take a look at the present perfect continuous tense,

And see how it expresses an action that has been happening recently or lately.

Let's take a look at the first sentence.

‘She has _blank_ bad lately.’

And the verb is ‘feel’.

Remember for ‘she’, we use ‘has’.

Then don't forget we need to have ‘been’.

‘She has been’

After that, we add ‘-ing’ to the verb.

The correct sentence is,

‘She has been feeling bad lately.’

The next sentence says,

‘We haven't _blank_ much recently.’

And the verb is ‘cook’.

This is a negative sentence.

So we say, ‘We have not’ or the contraction - ‘haven't’.

‘We haven't’ Don't forget ‘been’, and then verb ‘-ing’.

‘We haven't been cooking much recently.’

Finally, we move on, let's try to find the mistake.

‘We has been riding bikes to school recently.’

What's the mistake in this sentence?

The subject here is ‘We’.

For ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’, we have to say ‘have been’, not ‘has been’.

‘We have been riding bikes to school recently.’

And for the last one,

‘Jenny lately hasn't been helping me.’

The lately is placed wrong in this sentence.

We have to say,

‘Lately, Jenny hasn't been helping me.’

or we can also say,

‘Jenny hasn't been helping me lately.’

Let's move on to the next checkup.

In this checkup, we'll talk about the present perfect continuous tense

and how it expresses an action that stopped recently

but has a present result.

The first sentence says,

‘I _blank_ . That's why I'm so sweaty.’

The verb here is ‘exercise’. And the subject is ‘I’.

Do we use ‘has’ or ‘have’ for the subject ‘I’?

The correct answer is ‘have’.

Then, we put ‘been’ and then verb ‘-ing’.

Okay, so the correct answer is,

‘I have been exercising.

That's why I'm so sweaty.’

That's the result.

The next sentence says,

‘I'm covered in flour because I _blank_.’

And the verb is ‘bake’.

I have ‘I'm covered in flour because’

So this first part is the result.

I need to show the action that stopped recently in the present perfect continuous tense.

Again, the subject is ‘I’.

So we use ‘have been’.

Then, all we do is add ‘-ing’ to the end of baking.

‘I have been baking.’

‘I'm covered in flour because I have been baking.’

And we can use the contraction and say,

‘I've been baking.’

Now, find the mistake in the next sentence.

‘She has think a lot, so she has a headache.’

The result is that ‘she has a headache.’

So we need to use the present perfect continuous for the first part.

‘She has’ is correct.

What's missing?

Don't forget the ‘been’.

Also don't forget that we need to add ‘-ing’ to the verb.

‘She has been thinking a lot, so she has a headache.’

Look at the next sentence and find the mistake.

‘I'm so hungry because I have been diet.’

The only mistake here is that someone forgot to put the ‘-ing’ at the end of the verb, ‘diet’.

The correct answer is,

‘I'm so hungry because I have been dieting.’

Great job, everyone.

We got some really good practice in today

for the present perfect continuous English tense.

I know there was a lot to learn, but you did a wonderful job.

Studying English can be difficult,

but with practice, I promise you'll get better and better.

Keep watching my other videos, and I'll see you in the next one.