Perfect progressive aspect

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Perfect progressive aspect발음듣기

Hello, grammarians.발음듣기

Previously I had covered three of the basic aspects of English and that's simple, perfect and progressive.발음듣기

And so there's just one more and it's a combination of the last two and it's called the perfect progressive.발음듣기

And to recap what those two things do, is what the perfect does is it denotes something that is complete and the progressive notes something that has been ongoing.발음듣기

And it seems like those two things together don't make a whole lot of sense but I promise that they do.발음듣기

You can use the perfect progressive aspect to say that you've been doing something for a long time, or you will have done something for a long time, or that you had been doing something continuously in the past and now it's stopped.발음듣기

So let me explain how the perfect progressive is constructed.발음듣기

You take the verb "to have" and then you combine it with the word "been," and then the verb in question, and then the ending "ing".발음듣기

So, as with all of our aspects, the only part that changes is this "have" stuff.발음듣기

This is the only word that changes depending on which tense you situate it in.발음듣기

So in the past you would say, "I had."발음듣기

'"I had been eating cookies."발음듣기

In the present you would say, "I have been eating cookies."발음듣기

In the future you can say, "I will have been eating cookies."발음듣기

So you can use the perfect progressive aspect in a couple of different ways.발음듣기

You can say that something had been ongoing in the past and is now done, you can say that it's been ongoing in the past and is still happening now, you know, "I have been eating cookies all morning and "I have no intent to stop."발음듣기

Or you can use the perfect progressive to say how long something has been going on.발음듣기

So you can say, "I will have been eating cookies for 40 years come next Thursday and I have no regrets."발음듣기

You know, you can say how long something has been going on using this aspect.발음듣기

But you get the idea, so the perfect progressive is formed by combining "have" and have is the part that changes, I had been, I have been, I will have been, with been and the verb in question with an "ing" ending.발음듣기

You can learn anything, David out.발음듣기

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