Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous | When to use each so that you don't make mistakes

This lesson is a real deep dive into the present perfect and present perfect continuous verb tenses, so it's certainly more advanced English grammar.

The present perfect and present perfect continuous may certainly confuse some English learners, possibly because there are many language that do not even have these verb tenses. But in order to improve your comprehension and fluency, it's important to know how these verb tenses are used and understand the difference between them.

So I'm going to give you a detailed explanation for both verb tenses, telling you how and why they are used. And then I'm going to teach you the difference between the present perfect and present perfect continuous, which is going to help you communicate more clearly and effectively.

0:00 Improve your English grammar
0:52 Present Perfect - how and when to use it
3:06 Present Perfect Continuous - how and when to use it
5:17 Differences between present perfect & present perfect continuous
7:26 I have studied English. vs I have been studying English.
9:30 Verbs that basically mean the same thing for both tenses
10:08 Slight difference between the verb tenses (permanent vs temporary)

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For brazilian students, it's a little difficult to understand present perfect and present continuous, because we dont't have this type of tenses in portuguese. However, this lesson is really perfect and helped me a lot. Thanks, teacher.

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I quite like the temporary vs permanent distintction that you make at the end of the video. It makes such subtle difference between these two tenses very clear in that type of context.

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