In the sentence "Lina was crying because she had been reading a sad book" why do I use both verbs (crying and reading) with ing form. The sentence is an example of the past perfect continuous tense, but I thought that one verb should use the past perfect continuous and the second in the past simple tense. What am I missing? Thanks in advance Sophie has always loved shopping. (A Sophie siempre le ha gustado ir de compras.) Taylor has lived here since 1992. (Taylor ha vivido aquí desde 1992.) Los ejemplos del Present Perfect Tense (presente perfecto) arriba te ayudarán a entender y usar este tiempo verbal de manera correcta y natural. The three main verb tenses in English are the present, the past, and the future. The 'perfect' tenses (present perfect, past perfect and future perfect) are usually used to talk about actions that are completed by the present or a particular point in the past or future. To form the perfect tense we use the present / past / future form of the The present perfect tense is used to talk about events that are relevant to the present but that happened in the past. It is used to talk about an action that started in the past, without mentioning a specific time. Her daughter has had an accident. We have seen the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. If the present perfect occurs more than .

5 sentences of present perfect tense