Present Perfect Simple or Continuous? - Part 10

Choose the Present Perfect Simple or the Present Perfect Continuous

Everything is going well. We ..... any problems so far.

haven't been having

haven't had

Your Result URL:

Share this link:

Test Completed!

Correct: 0

Incorrect: 0

Details:

Rule: Present Perfect Continuous ShowHide

have / has been + -ing

An activity that started in the past and is still going on, often with for, since, all day, How long …?: She has been playing tennis since she was six.
A recent activity whose result you can see now: His clothes are dirty. He has been playing in the mud.

They haven't been waiting long.
How long have you been waiting?

Present Perfect Simple instead

A finished result, how many, how much: I've read three books. Nick has returned your book.
After a superlative or the first time: the most boring film I've ever seen; the first time he has driven a car
With state verbs – know, like, hear, have (own): Have you heard from Brian?
With yet: They haven't finished yet.

The activity or the result? I've been painting the kitchen – that's why my hands are dirty (maybe not finished). I've painted the kitchen – it's done. And check the form: she has been, not ~~she have been~~; been, not ~~being~~.

Ten sentences at a time out of sixty-four. Ask yourself what the sentence is about: the activity and how long it lasted takes have been doing, the finished result takes have done.