Read the following sentence: “I have been playing the guitar for two hours.” What grammatical aspect is highlighted in the sentence above?
Which of the following sentences demonstrates the correct use of the present perfect continuous tense?
A. Read the following excerpt from the book The Great Gatsby and complete with the missing verbs.
“By seven o’clock the orchestra _______________, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers ______________ in from the beach now and _______________ up-stairs; the cars from New York _______________ five deep in the drive […]” (FITZGERALD, 2011, p. 32-33).
Source: https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/7935/Gatsby_PDF_FullText.pdf Access on March, 20th 2023
Analyze the sentence and choose the correct verb tenses respectively:
“This time it was Edgardo Greco, 63, who was apprehended in Saint-Etienne, France, where he was working under the alias Paolo Dimitrio as a pizzaiolo at the Caffe Rossini Italian restaurant.”