Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Present Perfect Continuous tense digunakan untuk menyatakan tindakan yang telah dimulai di masa lalu dan sekarang masih berlanjut.

Tenses ini juga digunakan untuk menceritakan kejadian yang dimulai dimasa lalu dan baru saja selesai. Dalam present perfect continous, ada kejelasan waktu seperti “since 1990, for four hours”. Keterangan waktu tersebut merupakan ciri utama dari present perfect continous tense karena menunjukkan kapan kegiatan itu terjadi.

Rumus Present Perfect Continuous Tense

(+) Bentuk positif

- Subject + has / have + been + verb-ing

Contoh :

- They have been working together since senior high school.

- She has been working at that company for three years.

(-) Bentuk negatif

- Subject + has / have + not + been + verb-ing

Contoh :

- It has not been raining for three days

- I have not been living in America since 2003.

(?) Bentuk interrogative

- Has/have + subject + been + verb-ing?

Contoh :

- Have you been eating this egg for an hour?

- Has he been playing cricket for two hours?

Fungsi Present Perfect Continous Tense

Present perfect continous tense memiliki beberapa fungsi yaitu :

1. Digunakan untuk menyatakan kalimat yang dimulai di waktu lampau dan berlanjut hingga sekarang. Contoh:

- James has been teaching at the university since June.

- We have been waiting here for over two hours!

2. Present perfect continuous juga dapat digunakan tanpa kata keterangan waktu. Tapi, keterangan waktu tersebut diganti dengan “lately”, dan “recently”. Penggunaan kata “lately”dan “recently” di perlukan untuk memperjelas kalimat. Contoh :

- Recently, I have been feeling very tired.

- She has been watching television too much lately.

Catatan

Present perfect continuous tense menunjuk pada waktu tak tentu antara sebelum sekarang (before now) dan sekarang (now). Pembicara berpikir bahwa suatu kegiatan yang telah dimulai bisa jadi belum selesai pada periode waktu tersebut.

She has been waiting for you all day.

I've been working on this report since eight o'clock this morning.

Keterangan waktu yang biasa dipakai dalam present perfect continuous tense adalah for, since, recently, lately, How long?

Sumber : 

http://catatanbahasainggris.blogspot.com/2009/01/present-perfect-continuous.html (di ambil pada Jumat, 10 Oktober 2014 Pukul 17.06 WIB)

http://www.belajaringgris.net/present-perfect-continuous-tense-798.html (di ambil pada Jumat, 10 Oktober 2014 Pukul 17.08 WIB)

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