Present Perfect Continuous Examples (Real Life Examples of this English Tense)

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Hey, guys! This is Jack from tofluency. com and in this english lesson, we're
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going to look at some present perfect continuous examples - and the first one I'm
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going to show you is taken from social media, so let's have a look at that now...
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Hey, guys. This is
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Jack from tofluency.com - now the reason why I'm a little bit red and
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why I'm out of breath is because I've just been running. In the video I said "The reason why
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I'm a little bit red and why I'm out of breath is because I've just being
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running." So, I used the present perfect continuous here because I was talking
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about an action that just finished and we can see, hear or feel the result. So,
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this is one way that we can use the present perfect continuous. The result
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that you can see and hear is my face is red and I'm breathing heavily - so you can
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hear me breathing and you can see that my face is red - and the action that just
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finished was me going for a run so that's why I say I'm out of breath
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because I've just been running. Here are more examples: Why are you angry? I've
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been dealing with terrible students all day. I've been studying all day. I'm
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exhausted! If you want to learn more about the present perfect simple and
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continuous then watch this video - the link is in the description. Thank you for
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watching and I'll see you next time!
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