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Grammar

Present perfect and Present perfect continuous

Both Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous are used to indicate duration from past until now. The only difference between the two is that the first one is used with continuous verb while the second one is used with non-continuous verbs. Then Why we can use pharases like last week, last month, last year, etc with the present perfect continuous and not with the present perfect.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

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Hi, You can say things like I have lived here since last year. I have been living here since last year. Is that what you are asking about?

— Clive

  • Hi, You can say things like I have lived here since last year.
  • I have been living here since last year.
  • Is that what you are asking about?
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

You can say things like

I have lived here since last year.

I have been living here since last year.

Is that what you are asking about?

Best wishes, Clive
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What is the difference in meaning between these two sentences?
I can't undersatnd what "I have lived here since last year" means. Does it mean that I have been here for the last year and am still here too OR I have been living here for the last year and have stopped living here.

CB
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1. I have lived here since last year.
2. I have been living here since last year.

Both of these mean almost exactly the same thing. Last year you started living here and you are still living here.

The non-continuous form (1.) is a little more like a statement of a historical fact. The continuous form (2.) is a little more descriptive.
I think I'd use
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CalifJim1. I have lived here since last year.
2. I have been living here since last year.

Both of these mean almost exactly the same thing. Last year you started living here and you are still living here.

The non-continuous form (1.) is a little more like a statement of a historical fact. The continuous form (2.) is a little more de
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Hi GB,

You seem to be going down the wrong road here.Emotion: smile

'The verb 'live' is used in continuous tenses very, very com
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Well CJ don't you think that living is a non-continuous verb.
No. Not at all. A non-continuous verb is a verb that cannot be used in the continuous tenses, for example, to know. In English we can't (correctly) say I am knowing, you are knowing, ..., I was knowing, ... I have been knowing, ...

live is not a non-continuous verb. It can be
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First I would like to, once again, apprecite CJ and Clive for their genius. Guys you are the best in english.
Actually I read this rule of observing a continuous verb on a website (the link is on my first post). But now I am clear that how to differentiate a continuous verb from a non continuous verb (I am living, he is lying etc).

CalifJim So how come we u
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