Continuous aspect, an action in progress at or around a point in time, a temporary state with limited duration, what we see as new trends and developments, with some stative verbs for dramatic effect, especially in informal speech, with always/forever/constantly, to indicate an emotional reaction (often annoyance), Perfect aspect , to describe an event or action where the time is unknown, or unimportant, to describe an event or action where the time is less important than the result, to place one event or action before another, to stress that an action is complete, a repeated activity, Perfect Continous, to focus on process or activity, not result, to stress the duration of an action that has/had only just stopped.

Leaderboard

Visual style

Options

Switch template

)
Continue editing: ?