Present Perfect Simple or Continuous?

We use this tense with recently completed actions.

• Present Perfect Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

We are more likely to use this tense if the action started in the past and is still in progress.

• Present Perfect Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

We use this tense when we say how many times something has happened (once, twice, three times...).

• Present Perfect Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

We use this tense with stative verbs like understand, know, have, hear, like.

• Present Perfect Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

We use this tense for an action that has recently been in progress and which explains the current situation.

• Present Perfect Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

-At last!

-Sorry. How long...?

• have you waited?

• have you waiting?

• have you been waiting?

• have you been waited?

I've been waiting for ages. Where...

• have you being?

• have you been?

• have you been being?

• have you been doing?

-The bus didn't come.

-You're 30 minutes late! The film...

• has starting

• has been starting

• has been started

• has started

Anyway, let's go inside. I ... forward to this film for weeks.

• have been looked

• have looked

• have been looking

• have looking

-And what about the tickets?

-Don't worry. I ... the tickets.

• have already buying

• have been buying

• have been bought

• have already bought