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Lesson 6: Verb aspect and modal verbsPerfect progressive aspect
We use the perfect progressive aspect to talk about an action that was once ongoing, but has since completed, like "I had been waiting for twenty minutes.".
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- 1:42why is it "i will have been eating cookies" wouldn't it be i will be eating cookies?(19 votes)
- The sentence should have been, "I WOULD have been eating cookies"(5 votes)
- David, you just told the sentence structure to form perfect progressive aspect and that is have+been+VERB(ing). My question is, Is it also appropriate when we are talking about third person singular (he,she,it)?(13 votes)
- I would say yes. The only thing you would have to change most likely would be the "have". You would have to change the "have" to a "has". For example, in the sentence "She have been eating cookies", it doesn't sound right. If you replace the "have" in the sentence with "has", it then more grammatically correct: "She has been eating cookies."(3 votes)
- what is an example of simple grammar?(2 votes)
- An example of the simple aspect is:
Caden shops for tomatoes.
The wordshops
is in the simple present tense, as opposed to the perfect progressive present, which would look like this:Caden has been shopping for tomatoes.
(23 votes)
- Why "She would have danced all night. " and not "She would has danced all night. " ?(7 votes)
- she would has danced all night would be incorrect because has is present and past. so it would be she would have danced all night(11 votes)
- A squirrel yelled at me because i stole its tree >:((8 votes)
- That's not in the perfect progressive aspect. Try this:
A squirrel has been yelling at me because I stole its tree.(4 votes)
- Is he like sad why did he say I would have been did he not eat cookies(5 votes)
- Umm yea, I think if I didn't have cookies i'd be depressed...(4 votes)
- Living without cookies would be very tough.(4 votes)
- Living without cookies would mean living without you, wouldn't it, Commander?(4 votes)
- What is the perfect progressive different from perfect?(2 votes)
- Compare these examples, and it should be clear.
Present tense, progressive aspect: She is hammering.
Present tense, perfect aspect: She has hammered.
Present tense, Perfect progressive aspect: She has been hammering.
Past tense, progressive aspect: She was hammering.
Past tense, perfect aspect: She had hammered.
Past tense, perfect progressive aspect: She had been hammering.
Future tense, progressive aspect: She will be hammering.
Future tense, perfect aspect: She will have hammered.
Future tense, perfect progressive aspect: She will have been hammering.
I hope that helps.(6 votes)
- why is this so hard lol(4 votes)
- do you do this in 9th grade?(3 votes)
- You've probably been using it for years already, and getting it right "naturally". Learning about it is part of growing up. It'll come when it's time.(3 votes)
Video transcript
- Hello, grammarians. Previously I had covered
three of the basic aspects of English and that's simple,
perfect and progressive. And so there's just one
more and it's a combination of the last two and it's
called the perfect progressive. 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. And it seems like those
two things together don't make a whole lot of sense
but I promise that they do. 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. So let me explain how the perfect progressive is constructed. 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". So, as with all of our aspects,
the only part that changes is this "have" stuff. This is the only word that
changes depending on which tense you situate it in. So in the past you would say, "I had." "I had been eating cookies." In the present you would say,
"I have been eating cookies." In the future you can say, "I will have been eating cookies." So you can use the
perfect progressive aspect in a couple of different ways. 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." Or you can use the perfect
progressive to say how long something has been going on. So you can say, "I will
have been eating cookies for "40 years come next Thursday
and I have no regrets." You know, you can say how
long something has been going on using this aspect. 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. You can learn anything, David out.