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🔰Present Perfect Continuous tense 🔰الزمن المضارع التام المستمر This tense is used to talk about an action or actions that started in the past and continued until recently or that continue into the future: غالباً يستخدم هذا الزمن للتعبير عن أحداث بدأت في الماضي و استمرت الى الحاضر أو قد تستمر الى المستقبل 🔻We can use it to refer to an action that has finished but you can still see evidence. 🔻يستخدام كذلك للتعبير عن حدث انتهى في الماضي و لكن ما زلنا نرى دلائله و آثاره في الوقت الحاضر 🔹🅰️: You look hot. 🅱️: Yes, I’ve been running. 🔹Sorry I'm late. Have you been waiting long? 🔹I must just go and wash. I’ve been gardening. 🔹Oh, the kitchen is a mess. Who has been cooking? 🔹You look tired. Have you been sleeping properly? 🔹I’ve got a stiff neck. I’ve been working too long on computer. 🔻It can refer to an action that has not finished. 🔻و يمكن كذلك استخدامه للتعبير عن حدث غير مكتمل أي بدأ في الماضي و لا زال مستمر الى الحاضر و قد يستمر الى المستقبل 🔹I’ve been learning Spanish for 20 years and I still don’t know very much. 🔹I’ve been waiting for him for 30 minutes and he still hasn’t arrived. 🔹He’s been telling me about it for days. I wish he would stop. 🔻Repeated actions 🔻أحداث متكررة We can use the present perfect continuous not only for continuous activity, but also for repeated activity. 🔹People have been phoning me all day. 🔹I’ve been waking up in the night a lot. I think I’ll see the doctor. 🔹She’s been writing to her regularly for a couple of years. 🔹He’s been phoning me all week for an answer. 🔹The university has been sending students here for over twenty years to do work experience. 🔻The present perfect continuous is often used with words that refer to a period of time continuing up to now, like ‘since’, ‘for’, ‘all week’, ‘for days’, ‘lately’, ‘recently’, ‘over the last few months’, ‘for the last (three) days’ ...etc 🔻الكلمات الدالة عليه👆🏻 🔹I’ve been wanting to do that for ten years. 🔹You haven’t been getting good results over the last few months. 🔹They haven’t been workingall week. They’re on strike 🔹He hasn’t been talking to me forweeks. 🔹We’ve been working hard on it forages. 🔹The company has been losing money recently. 🔹Jack's been walking in Scotland all this week. 🔹I’ve been doing a new job since January. 🔹It’s been raining forthe last three days. @EnglishGrammarSecrets