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urgent present perfect or prevent perfect continuous
hi everyone would you please help me with this sentence: - Congestion charges have become/ been becoming very controversial in UK. what is the correct answer become or been becoming
When you use the present perfect continuous you are emphasizing the duration of an action that started in the past and is still in progress in the present:
I have waited here for 30 minutes.
I have been waiting here for 30 minutes. (emphazises the duration of the action still in progress)
The
Present Perfect Uses(used with all types of verbs- state, action, mental)
Recent past action/
Jane has just arrived.
Past action related to
the present/ I�ve been herefor
hours.
Indefinite fulfilled past
action / I�ve watched this film.
The
Present Perfect Continuous Use(used with action and mental verbs- only)
An action started in the past and continued up to
now and it�s still going on
further into the future.
I�ve been working in this factoryfor
30 years now, and I�mstillworking here. N.B- �become� is a descriptive verb of state, so
it�s �have become�.
