English Grammar with Kudjo. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых. Part 2 - страница 5

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Generally, the focus of this tense is on duration while the focus of Present Perfect Simple on the result:

He has been tidying the house for three hours.

He has already tidied the house.

EXERCISE 1

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous:

1 Kudjo /count/ treats. One is missing.

2 Kudjo /sleep/ since the morning walk.

3 They /build/ a tree-house. There’s a terrible mess around.

4 They /build/ the tree-house and are inviting everybody to visit it.

5 Kudjo /walk/ ten km and he can’t go any further without a rest.

6 Dradjo /babble/ without a stop for 2 hours.

7 How many treats you /eat/ today?

EXERCISE 2

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous:

1 Dradjo /frolic/ in the garden and /eat/ all the strawberries.

2 They are not hungry. They /eat/ a lot of meat muffins for their breakfast.

3 Kudjo /read/ a lot recently. He /read/ two books this week.

4 Kudjo /clean/ the house and he is exhausted.

5 Kudjo /clean/ the house. Everything is sparkling clean.

6 It /not rain/ all day. Only for ten hours.

7 Dradjo /break/ two cups, three plates and four glasses so far.

Remember that non-continuous verbs (e.g. love, like, want, know, etc.) are not used in Present Perfect Continuous. If you have these verbs in your sentences, you should use Present Perfect instead.

For example,

He has known Kudjo for a year.

EXERCISE 3

Find the proper verb and put it into the correct form of Present Perfect Continuous or Present Perfect Simple: know, have, smell, want, belong, have, taste,

1 How long ***** this house ***** to Kudjo?

2 He ***** the milk for a few minutes. What’s up?

3 The tap water ***** strange since yesterday. Let’s call a plumber.

4 Kudjo ***** this pet for a year. He can’t imagine his life without Dradjo now.

5 They ***** this party since 7 pm. Now it’s midnight.

6 Kudjo ***** to have a pet for a long time.

7 How long ***** they ***** each other?

It’s easy to tell the difference between these tenses if you have signal verbs. Let’s refresh them together: time expressions for Present Perfect Continuous are for, since, how long, recently, lately, while markers for Present Perfect are just, ever, never, always, already, yet, since, so far, once, the first time, etc.