? Present Perfect Progressive formation

Regular:

„have“ / „has“ + „been“ + Infinitive + “-ing““

Just as in the other progressive tenses, the present perfect progressive is formed with the help of a “to be” form and a verb + “-ing”. However, you do not need the “am”, “is”, “are”, “was” or “were” form as “to be” forms, but “have” or “has”.

 

„have / has not“ + Infinitive + „-ing“

Also, the negation is not really difficult, as the formation of a “normal” sentence. That means you just have to put a “not” behind the “to be” form.

 

Irregular:

On the other hand, there are no irregular verbs in present perfect progressive. The only hack is in the word “have” or “has”.

‼️ What is to be considered in the perfect progressive form!

The “to be” forms “have” and “has”:

According to the rule (he, she it, the “-s” has to be used) here, only the 3rd person singular “has” is used. In contrast, “have” is used in all other forms.

 

Spelling rules to “-ing” formation:

Particularly, making verbs with ing at the end is very simple. However, there are few points to consider:

 

 1. For verbs ending in “-e”:

The “-e” goes away:

• give becomes giving

 

2. Verbs ending in “-er”, “-ur”, “-ir”:

The final consonant is doubled:

• occurs to occurring

 

3. Monosyllabic verbs ending on a stressed consonant:

As with the second rule, the last consonant is doubled here:

• get becomes getting
• swim becomes swimming
• fit becomes fitting

 

4. Verbs ending in “-ie”:

For this purpose, the “-ie” is replaced by a “-y” in the formation:

• lie becomes lying

 

Don’t get it twisted:

Basically, both “have not” and “haven’t” express the same thing, only when writing you should consider what intension is behind the text.

2️⃣ Present Perfect Progressive examples