I have been singing all day. She has been reading. Some people have been in government since 1999. The lecturer has been teaching at UNILAG for eight years. He has been sleeping in the other room.

the past tense and the present continuous. Because the aspect (duration) of the occurrence is also important, others include the present continuous, the past continuous, present perfect and the ...

But the latest musician to take Cyrus to task is indie singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens—not for Cyrus’s outrageous behavior but for her failure to grasp the present perfect continuous tense.

THE three perfect tenses in English — the present perfect, the past perfect, and the future perfect — capture the idea that one event or occurrence happened or happens before another time or event in ...