Perfect Progressive Tense | Perfect Continuous Tense : Past, Present & Future
In this lesson, we will learn about the perfect progressive tense, also known as the perfect continuous tense.
In previous lessons, we’ve learned that the PROGRESSIVE TENSE, also called the CONTINUOUS TENSE is used to describe actions that continue over a period of time. And that the PERFECT TENSE shows perfection, or completion, up to a point in time.
So when we want to indicate an action or condition that is ongoing but that will be completed at some definite time, we will use the PERFECT PROGRESSIVE, or the PERFECT CONTINUOUS form.
The perfect progressive tense describes actions that repeated over a period of time in the past, are continuing in the present, and/or will continue in the future. The progressive form of a tense represents the action of the verb as going on or continuing at the time referred to.
Verb construction and conjugations are shown examples sentences are given.