listen/listen to
I heard "Have you guys listening this entire time?".
but, Isn't "listening to" right?
Have you guys listening to this entire time?
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Sorry, but "Have you guys listening this entire time?" is wrong, and "Have you guys listening to this entire time?" is even more wrong.
You listen to something, so you need to have a subject with 'listening to'.
Your initial sentence needs correcting, e.g. "Have you guys been listening this entire time?". Even the 'this' is a little odd. It would be better with 'the' "Have you guys been listening the entire time?".
If you have a subject, then you use 'to', e.g. "Have you guys been listening to music the entire time?"
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The present perfect continuous (also called present perfect progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an action started in the past and has continued up to the present moment.
The present perfect continuous is formed using has/have + been + present participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not.
Statement: You have been waiting here for two hours.
Question: Have you been waiting here for two hours?
Negative: You have not been waiting here for two hours.
We use the present perfect continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the present perfect continuous.
Examples:
They have been talking for the last hour.
She has been working at that company for three years.
What have you been doing for the last 30 minutes?
James has been teaching at the university since June.
We have been waiting here for over two hours!
Why has Nancy not been taking her medicine for the last three days?
You can also use the present perfect continuous WITHOUT a duration such as "for two weeks." Without the duration, the tense has a more general meaning of "lately." We often use the words "lately" or "recently" to emphasize this meaning.
Examples:
Recently, I have been feeling really tired.
She has been watching too much television lately.
Have you been exercising lately?
Mary has been feeling a little depressed.
Lisa has not been practising her English.
What have you been doing?
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