Present perfect continuous use – Exercise 261

Drag each element from the list below to the right gap.

It has been raining.

The scientists have been testing the new medicine for five years.

I have been cooking dinner.

The workers have been building a house.

The temperature has been falling since last evening.

Now it's around zero degrees Celcius.

We can eat now.

Now the families can move in.

The grass is wet now.

It's available for the patients now.

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Present perfect continuous use 1

It started raining an hour ago.

It has been raining for an hour.

It has just stopped raining.

Result: the grass is wet now.

The activity started in the past and it has recently stopped. We can see its result at the moment of speaking.

Examples

— Why are you out of breath? — I have been running. I started running some time ago. I've just stopped running. As a result, I'm out of breath now.

We have been playing volleyball for two hours. We are thirsty. We started playing two hours ago. As a result, after two hours of playing, we feel thirsty.

Julie has been walking in the rain. Her clothes and her hair are wet now. The rain started some time ago. Julie has spent some time in the rain. As a result, she's wet.