Hello everyone! I've been just thinking about an example of using Present Perfect Continuous and imagined the situation when my mom and I are walking across the embankment at the sunset. And if now is 11 pm, for example, and I'm telling my friend about this experience of today, what tense should I use? I mean, can I use Present Perfect Continuous here like We've been walking across the embankment at the sunset today? Won't it mean that we're still walking there?
I would appreciate your help!
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The past continuous is needed here.
“We were walking at sunset.”
The past continuous can show an incomplete action at a time (here, the time is sunset).
The past continous can also show an incomplete action at the time of another action.
“We were walking when my phone rang.”
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When you are talking about a “finished” past you don’t use perfect.
If you meet your friend and 11 and he/she asks “What have you been doing?” You can say “I have been walking along the embankment.”
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