English tenses in conversation | Present Perfect Continuous | 2 TRAPS: No negative? Finished action?

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Why do we rarely hear ‘I have not been doing’? Why do we sometimes use ‘have been doing’ for a completed action? Present Perfect Continuous is one of the most difficult tenses to use correctly in our daily English conversations. In this lesson, I’ll clarify two big traps we can fall into when using this tense and practise it in two typical conversations.

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00:00 Introduction
01:12 Present Perfect Continuous
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02:13 Part 2 removed
02:42 When can we say ‘Have not been doing’
03:27 One more tricky thing!
04:17 Three facts
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04:57 Fact 2 removed
05:17 Typical conversation 1
06:03 Typical conversation 2

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