Answer:
1. What are you doing here?
2. He has been doing his lessons since after lunch.
3. "Where's Fred?" - "He is working in the garden. He has been planting rose bushes since dawn."
4. All things in the drawing-room are out of place. The children are playing hide and seek!
5. I have been thinking of your aunt's proposal since we last met.
6. We are staying at the Regent hotel; won't you come and see us?
7. For a week now those mice have been stealing food from the pantry.
8. Down by the pine woods they are laying out a new road.
1. He had barely entered the room when his secretary said, "Somebody has been ringing for you for the last five minutes."
2. "What are the children doing?" - "They have been playing games all morning and now they are learning to tell time by the position of the sun."
3. "Our friends are leaving." - "How long have they been staying with you?"
4. "What are you thinking about?" - "I am not thinking, I am counting the birds in the sky."
5. "Where's my daughter?" - "She is talking to a policeman." - "What's happened?" - "She has been driving without a license."
6. "Florence, dear, I have been looking for you everywhere." - "What's happened?" - "Mr. Cusak has been waiting for you in the house."
Explanation:
The tense used to talk about things that are taking place in the present is called the present tense. There are several types of the present tense:
- Present simple - used to talk about fixed habits or routines, things that don't change.
- Present continuous - used to talk about actions that are happening at the present moment, but will soon finish.
- Present perfect continuous - used to talk about things that started in the past, but are still happening.
You can see more about the way these tenses are built and used below:
