Content tagged with "aspect, period of time"
2 item(s) found.The perfect continuous "aspect"
have + been + verb-ing
The perfectThe aspect expressing completion. E.g.: He’s finished university. continuousThe aspect expressing duration, formed with be + verb-ing. E.g.: What are you doing? is not considered as an aspectA verbal category relating an action to the passage of time. It can express duration or completion. in itself; rather it is the combination of the perfect and continuous aspects.
