Perfect Continuous Tenses show an action in progress, whose duration before a definite moment is expressed

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Perfect Continuous Tenses show an action in progress, whose duration before a definite moment is expressed

Past Perfect Continuous indicates 1. an action that had been happening for a period of time in the past up to the moment when another action happened. # I had been eating breakfast for 30 minutes when my brother arrived.

Present Perfect Continuous indicates 1. an action that has been happening for a period of time up to the present moment. # I’ve been eating for an hour NOTE: Compare: Present Continuous when? - (now) Present Perfect Continuous how long?

Future Perfect Continuous indicates 1. an action that will have been happening in the future for a period of time up to the moment when another action happens. # I will have been eating my breakfast for 30 minutes by the time you arrive.

Future Perfect Continuous -новое время, оно редко употребляется в речи.

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+ You will have been waiting for more than two hours when her plane finally arrives.

- You will not have been waiting for more than two hours when her plane finally arrives.

? Will you have been waiting for more than two hours when her plane finally arrives?

s? How long will you have been waiting when her plane finally arrives?

HOMEWORK FOR THE

1) Learn Perfect Continuous rules

2) Find 6 mistakes in the story and correct them

In 1999, moviegoers were amazed to learn that Keanu Reeves has actually performed the fighting scenes himself. Hong Kong director Yuen Wo Ping had trained the actors and designing the scenes. At that time, Yuen was almost unknown in the United States, but he had already have a long career.

Yuen was born in China in 1945. His father had been a kung fu actor, and he trained Yuen in martial arts. When he was 25, Yuen began to design fight scenes (by then, he had already been acted for 10 years). In 1978, he directed his first film, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, starring

Jackie Chan, and it was a huge success. Before he worked with Yuen, Chan had struggling to start his career. Yuen's films made him famous.

When The Matrix exploded on the screen, Western audiences saw something they had never been seeing before, and Yuen was back in business.

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