Ex 4,5. Open the brackets, using the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous. Please.

1. What are you doing here?

2. He has been doing his lessons since after lunch.

3. "Where's Fred?" - "He is working in the garden. He has been planting rose bushes since dawn."

4. All things in the drawing-room are out of place. The children are playing hide and seek!

5. I have been thinking of your aunt's proposal since we last met.

6. We are staying at the Regent hotel; won't you come and see us?

7. For a week now those mice have been stealing food from the pantry.

8. Down by the pine woods they are laying out a new road.

1. He had barely entered the room when his secretary said, "Somebody has been ringing for you for the last five minutes."

2. "What are the children doing?" - "They have been playing games all morning and now they are learning to tell time by the position of the sun."

3. "Our friends are leaving." - "How long have they been staying with you?"

4. "What are you thinking about?" - "I am not thinking, I am counting the birds in the sky."

5. "Where's my daughter?" - "She is talking to a policeman." - "What's happened?" - "She has been driving without a license."

6. "Florence, dear, I have been looking for you everywhere." - "What's happened?" - "Mr. Cusak has been waiting for you in the house."

Explanation:

The tense used to talk about things that are taking place in the present is called the present tense. There are several types of the present tense:

You can see more about the way these tenses are built and used below:

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