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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

please help me clear my confusion.

A. I have been feeling tired lately but I am ok now.
My grammar book(Cambridge university press advanced grammar book) says that the present perfect continuous tennis can be use like this to show the action started in the past and has just or recently stooped. Here this sentence means I am not feeling tired at the time of speaking. Is this correct? ?
  

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The present perfect continuous usually indicates an action that is from the past into the present, but it does depend on the particular action. In your case, the tiredness is not continual but repeated, so there is a hiatus at the moment ('I'm OK now'), but the use of the pp continuous leads us to undertstand that the speaker believes these bouts of tiredness will continue into the future..

— Mister Micawber

  • The present perfect continuous usually indicates an action that is from the past into the present, but it does depend on the particular action.
  • In your case, the tiredness is not continual but repeated, so there is a hiatus at the moment ('I'm OK now'), but the use of the pp continuous leads us to undertstand that the speaker believes these bouts of tiredness will continue into the future..
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The present perfect continuous usually indicates an action that is from the past into the present, but it does depend on the particular action. In your case, the tiredness is not continual but repeated, so there is a hiatus at the moment ('I'm OK now'), but the use of the pp continuous leads us to undertstand that the speaker believes these bouts of tiredness will continue into the future..
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