The Present Perfect Progressive Tense

Use since or ever since with a specific month, year or a period in the past I have been jogging in this park since 2002 / He has been staring at the wall ever since he heard the news.

Use for with a number of hours, days, months, years She’s been talking on the phone for 3 hours.

The present perfect progressive (continuous) is actually easier to understand than the present perfect simple tense. It is used to describe an event that started in the past but is still happening in the present. That event in the present can be

An habitual event:

I have been living in this house for 40 years.

(I started living in it 40 years ago and I am still living in it today.)

Something that is taking place at this moment:

I have been climbing up this mountain for over two hours.

(I started climbing up it two hours ago and at this moment I’m still climbing.)

To form the present perfect progressive (continuous), has or have + been + verbing (present participle).