Perfect Tenses and Perfect Continuous Tenses
I have been studying English since primery school but i still don't understand clearly the usage of Perfect Tenses (past,present,future),it's really rather difficul to catch it,because we have no analogue nor in russian neither in ukrainian.
What about perfect continuos,there is everything clear in general except one moment:
there are described some cases of use of present perfect continuos in the tutorial, one of them is:
is used for past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present
for example: He has been fighting.That's why he is got a black you/
Isn't it Present Perfect?Why should i use here perfect continuos?
i'm really confused
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Perfect Tenses and Perfect Continuous Tenses
I have been studying English since primary school but i still don't understand clearly the usage of Perfect Tenses (past,present,future),it's really rather difficul to catch it,because we have no analogue nor in russian neither in ukrainian.
What about perfect continuos,there is everything clear in general except one moment:
there are described some cases of use of present perfect continuos in the tutorial, one of them is:
is used for past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present
for example: He has been fighting.That's why he is got a black eye
Isn't it Present Perfect?Why should i use here perfect continuos?
i'm really confused
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In addition to the corrections already made:
"It's really rather difficult to understand it, because we have no analogue either in Russian or in Ukrainian.
I didn't use "catch", because "catch" should be used when you don't understand a specific, limited statement or piece of information. "Understand" is a better word to use when you are talking about an entire field of knowledge. Compare: (1) "I didn't catch/understand what you just said. Kindly repeat it." (2) "I don't understand quantum physics."
The key word in the second clause is "either", because the clause is negative. Compare: (1) "I like both ice cream and cake." (2) "I don't like either ice cream or cake."
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Perfect Tenses and Perfect Continuous Tenses
I have been studying English since primary school but I still don't understand clearly the usage of the Perfect Tenses (past, present, and future). It's really rather difficult to catch it, because we have no analogue nor in both Russian neither in and Ukrainian.
What about the Perfect Continuous? there is Everything is clear to me there in general except one moment thing:
there are described some cases of use of present perfect continuos in the tutorial Described in this tutorial are some uses of the Present Perfect Continuous; one of them is is used for past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present; for example, "He has been fighting. That's why he is got has a black you eye."
Isn't it Shouldn't it be in the Present Perfect? Why should I use here the Perfect Continuos here? I'm really confused.
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perfect tenses are a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfect aspect)
perfect continuous tense are the verb form including the auxiliary have followed by been and a present participle, noting the continuation of an activity or event, its incompleteness or interruption, and its connection to the temporal point of reference, as in I've been waiting for over an hour, They had been talking about her before she came into the room, or In July, he will have been living here for two years.
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By the way, you could also say "He was fighting. That's why he has a black eye."
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