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PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS WORKSHEET

Name :______________________________________ Grade: _____________

Write the verbs in brackets in the Present Perfect Continuous and complete with
since or for, where necessary.
1-What you_________________ (do) _________________ lunch?
2-I _________________ (rest) _______________then.
3-The Browns _______________(live) here ________________ the last ten years.
4-She ____________(lie) in the sun ________the whole morning.
5-I _________________ (try) to get in touch with you _________seven, but your
telephone has been engaged all day.
6-We_________________( wait) at this bus stop ___________ half an hour now.
7-Mr Brown ______________ (learn) French ________________ September.
8-I __________ (sit) and ___________(watch) the dogs in the park ______hours.
9- ___________ children came back to school ___________ (study) a lot.
10-She ______________ (stand) in the line ____________ two oclock.
11-The Browns ________ (travel) around Portugal __________the beginning of July.
12-My cousin________________________(stay) with us all this summer.
13-This book ____________ (lie) around ________ ages; why havent you read it?
14-We __________ (listen) to that man __________twenty minutes now and he
__________(talk) very loud.
15. I ___________(study) French __________ I was seven.
16. Mary ____________(work) for the same company _________ 1992.
17. They _____________(read) the same book __________ weeks.
18. Susan _____________(try) to compose a symphony _________ two years.
19. They __________(build) this house _________last year.
20. These workers _____________(live) far from their families _________ a long time
Complete using present perfect continuous
1 Max ________________________________________this comic book. (not/ read)
2 How long _____________________________________ French? (they/learn)
3 I ___________________________________________for two months now. (not/ drive)
4 _____________________________________________________the whole morning?
(she/ walk)
5 Who ______________________________________________ in the garden? (dig)
6 It ____________________________________________________much in this area.
(not/rain)
7 How long_________________________________________________ this earring?
(you/ wear)
8 Marie____________________________________________________ in her diary.
(not/write)
9 ________________________________________ hearts the whole lesson? (she/draw)
10 What ________________________________________________________? (we/ do)

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences in Present Perfect Continuous
1

I for my been glasses. looking have

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2

are have What reading? book of been you kind

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3

Why Pamela been crying? has

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4

economics been National Paul University. at France studying has

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5

everyone has laughing? Why been

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6

waiting for you me? Have been

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7

you leaving? been When have

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8

in Saudi working Arabia moment. the been at John has

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9

company you? for Has Jennifer as the been working same

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10 a been do have invited Saturday - to party I you come? want next
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Complete the sentences using PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE or PRESENT PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
1) (they/arrive) already?

2) Lucy (run) 2000 metres today.

3) I (clean) all morning - I'm fed up!.

4) How long (you/know) Simon?

5) I (drink) more water recently, and I feel better.