1 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:05,060 In this grammar refresh, we're going to look at the present perfect, continuous tense. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:11,780 Now, we've looked at this before, so I'm going to do it again just because the more you see it, the 3 00:00:11,780 --> 00:00:14,750 more familiar you get, the easier it becomes to use. 4 00:00:15,380 --> 00:00:22,660 And if you remember the present perfect continuous being, a continuous tense means that we're focusing 5 00:00:22,670 --> 00:00:30,320 on the operation of the action, not the action itself, if that happened or not, happened at the actual 6 00:00:30,770 --> 00:00:31,440 operation. 7 00:00:31,790 --> 00:00:34,050 That's what we mean when we mean any of. 8 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:42,490 And for the present, perfect, it's something that started in the past and then has some connection 9 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:49,590 to the present time that you're talking about it, so make this present perfect, continuous. 10 00:00:50,200 --> 00:01:00,640 You use a form of the verb to have, have or has in the past participle of to be then followed by your 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,430 main verb in the present participle, which means you add engy. 12 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:13,140 To the base for the let's look at our example, the first one is I've been trying to find some cute 13 00:01:13,140 --> 00:01:16,310 presents for my nieces for over a week. 14 00:01:16,980 --> 00:01:18,330 I don't know what to get them. 15 00:01:19,430 --> 00:01:27,040 Here we have the phrase I've been trying for, I have been trying this is the present perfect continuous 16 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:33,650 egg and you can see in the sentence we have that phrase for over a week, but that gives you the duration 17 00:01:33,980 --> 00:01:35,860 that this action has been happening. 18 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:36,200 Right. 19 00:01:36,650 --> 00:01:44,030 So this person has been trying to do this, trying to find some presence or a duration of over a week. 20 00:01:46,060 --> 00:01:49,420 The next example, how long have you been cooking? 21 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:54,510 I've been cooking for more than 13 hours now. 22 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:59,370 I'm so exhausted, I just want this Christmas madness to be over. 23 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:03,140 One more time, how long have you been cooking? 24 00:02:04,090 --> 00:02:06,640 I've been cooking for more than 13 hours now. 25 00:02:07,210 --> 00:02:11,850 I'm so exhausted I just want this Christmas madness be over. 26 00:02:12,550 --> 00:02:18,430 And so here we have a question for how long have you been cooking it up? 27 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,100 Thing to notice here is where are we putting that subject? 28 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:31,030 You know, it goes between the have and the bean, but have you been in so it's not how long you have 29 00:02:31,030 --> 00:02:38,890 been cooking, it's how long have you been cooking, whatever the subject of the question would be. 30 00:02:40,210 --> 00:02:41,060 You put that there. 31 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,510 So how long has he been cooking? 32 00:02:43,990 --> 00:02:46,750 How long has it been cooking? 33 00:02:47,230 --> 00:02:53,200 How long have you been cooking, if you're going to change on who you're talking to? 34 00:02:54,510 --> 00:03:01,140 And then following that, we have I've been cooking, so this is just the positive form of the sentence 35 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:09,900 I've been cooking, and you have that duration there for 13 hours for more than 13 hours as this is 36 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:10,870 continuous tense. 37 00:03:10,890 --> 00:03:13,410 We're talking about that operation. 38 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,220 This action has been going on from the past and now. 39 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:25,980 In this Granma refresh, we're looking at the past continuous verb, the past continuous verb tense, 40 00:03:26,730 --> 00:03:35,610 and we make this very tense in the past in us, we're going to use the past tense form of the verb to 41 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:39,150 be you have were or was. 42 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:49,850 Followed by the present participle of your main verb into add, I enjoy the base for this past continuous 43 00:03:49,850 --> 00:03:58,820 tense is used to describe a event that was ongoing during a certain time in the past. 44 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:01,340 There's no connection to the present. 45 00:04:02,010 --> 00:04:08,150 We're just talking about a event that happened, but we're talking about the duration of that event, 46 00:04:08,660 --> 00:04:10,980 not just the action happening there. 47 00:04:11,270 --> 00:04:14,060 So this is why we're using the past continuous. 48 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:16,280 But let's look at our example. 49 00:04:17,460 --> 00:04:26,460 The first one is it was a New Year's Eve, our parents were sleeping, I was playing video games in 50 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:30,780 my room and our cat was eating Christmas decorations. 51 00:04:32,070 --> 00:04:35,880 So here we have a few uses of this past continuous tense. 52 00:04:36,690 --> 00:04:42,600 Our parents were sleeping and so during this New Year's Eve in the past. 53 00:04:44,020 --> 00:04:47,530 The parents were sleeping right during that whole event. 54 00:04:48,470 --> 00:04:55,250 The duration they were sleeping and the other person was playing video games, the cat was eating. 55 00:04:56,270 --> 00:04:58,210 So these are all things that were happening. 56 00:04:59,870 --> 00:05:02,930 The duration of them in this event in the past. 57 00:05:04,060 --> 00:05:07,770 And let's look at the next example, what did you do yesterday? 58 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:15,730 Oh, well, I was cleaning, I was cooking, I was working out, I was doing everything. 59 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,650 So here we have quite a few uses of the past, continuous tense. 60 00:05:21,430 --> 00:05:28,670 And because we asked what you were or what did you do yesterday and yesterday, is this in front? 61 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,560 And during this time frame, these actions were taking place.