Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Honey! I'll be ready in a minute! (some time later) Here I am! Sweetheart, I've been waiting for you for 40 minutes already! How come your "minute" is thaaaaaat long? Grammar cookie for today is ✅the Present Perfect Continuous tense (e.g. have/has been waiting) Now, I'll explain it to you like you are a four-year-old? In our previous posts #grammarcookie we found out that ?Simple tenses = "facts, routines" ?Continous tenses ="process" ?Perfect tenses = "result, experience" ?Perfect Continuous tenses= "long" ✅Perfect Continuous tense combines result+process. ‼️If you have already got something, and it took you LONG, but you are still on your way to get more!‼️ ?Example: I have been learning Chinese for two years. (I already speak and understand Chinese, but still want more!) Magic formula for the Present Continous Tense : 1. Present Perfect = have/has (for he/she/it)+been (V3 of "to be") 2. Continuous= V+ing (waiting/doing/eating) ?Example: Oh, this cake is huge! We've been eating it for half an hour already and haven't finished even a half of it! ?Example: Mary has been dating this guy for a year already. He must be deaf! How can you "mark" a "long" experience: ✅Your friends here are: "Markers": ✏️ for, since ?Example: He has been drinking beer for 5 minutes already. ?We have been living here since 2001. ✏️the whole (morning, lesson, day), all my life, all the morning. ?Example: I have been cleaning my room all the morning. Easy, huh?? ✏️Now write your sentences in the Present Perfect Continuous tense ❤️Thank you for your generous likes and comments?? Activate your English at www.wakatta.group ! ALL RIGHTS TO WARNER BROS. AND HBO Our ?video examples provided by: Futurama - S07e01 Friends - s05e04 Friends - s09e12 The Big Bang Theory - S06E16 Friends - s02e10