Present perfect Continuous

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Please help me with this sentence (Those boys like to play football in the evening) change it into Present perfect continuous tense. Is there anyone who can help me. Thanks!

Philip · Accepted Answer

Lia
Please help me with this sentence (Those boys like to play football in the evening) change it into Present perfect continuous tense. Is there anyone who can help me. Thanks!

[Have been liking to play] is what you've asked for. It is awkard to my ear, however.

Cool Breeze · Answer

Philip[Have been liking to play] is what you've asked for. It is awkard to my ear, however.

I agree with Philip. There are quite a few verbs that aren't used in continuous tenses, or haven't been used, anyway. There's a tendency to use some such verbs in continuous tenses just to attract attention in advertising, for example. I prefer to avoid them. To my mind like in a continuous tense is wrong.

English changes, though. Maybe some day after enough people have used it often enough it'll be considered correct.

CB

Yankee · Answer

I agree with Philip and CB..

Lia, are you sure you're not supposed to simply use the verb 'play' in the present perfect continuous? That would be a normal usage:
Those boys have been playing football in the evening.

Or does your teacher want you to possibly write something like this?
Those boys have liked playing football in the evening.

The sentence above is not actually the present perfect continuous, but rather the present perfect simple of the verb 'like' followed by the -ing form of the verb 'play'.

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