Present Perfect Continuous Tense VS Past Perfect Continuous Tense ( English Grammar Lesson)

Present Perfect Continuous Tense VS Past Perfect Continuous Tense ( English Grammar Lesson)

Present perfect continuous: is used to speak about an action that started in the past and is still on in the present. The action is not completed.

Example: I have been working at ABC for 5 years. (I started working 5 years ago, and I am still working currently)

Example: I am angry. I have been waiting for you for two hours. (from 2 pm-4 pm I have been waiting)

Example: It has been raining since last night. (last night, it started raining at 10 pm and it is still raining this morning)

Past perfect continuous: to show that something started in the past and continued until another time in the past. The action is not on in the present.

Example: I had been working at ABC for 5 years. (I started working in 2009 and resigned in Dec’14. Now, I am not working at ABC company. So, we use the past perfect continuous)

Example: I was angry. I had been waiting for John for two hours. (yesterday, the action of waiting was on for 2 hours)

Example: The road was wet. It had been raining for many hours yesterday. (yesterday, the action of raining started and went on for a couple of hours and then stopped. It is not raining in the present)

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The present perfect continuous is used for actions that have begun in the past but continues in the present, is given a specific time even if the activity is finished. In the present perfect, we use the auxiliary verb "to have" in addition to "been" (the past participle of the verb "to be") plus the verb+ing.Unlike the present perfect continuous, which indicates an action that began in the past and continued up to the present, the past perfect continuous tense is a tense that indicates something that started in the past, continued in the past and also ended in a context defined. Point in the past that is formed with a structure of: ad been + the present participle of the verb root + -ing).

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This is one of the best explanations regarding Present and Past Perfect tenses. It is already INSTILLED in my mind. I think the ONE OF THE DISTINCTIONS here is using FOR and SINCE phrases in Present Perfect Tense while FOR phrase only in Past Perfect. Another distinction is if TIME EXPRESSIONS used in the sentence like yesterday, last week, etc. is NOT SPECIFIED and one can use HAD + BEEN + VERB+ING. Otherwise, if yesterday or so is used then WAS/WERE + VERB+ING is utilized. Aside from the distinction that in Present Perfect Tense the action started in the past and is still continuing at the present while in Past Perfect Tense it started in the past and was continuing for some time but ENDED in the past

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[knowledgegroup]

Hi, thank you for the lovely lesson.

I want to know that can we use "I have been or I had been" during our induction for a job to tell our past experience?

For example -
I had been working at ABC for 4 years then I left and joined XYZ where I have been working for 3 years.

Does this make sense?