Below is a list of some of the less common tenses, followed in each case by examples. Note that the continuous tenses convey the idea of an event or state going on for a period of time:

Present perfect continuous

• I have been working in the garden all day, and now I'm extremely tired.
• She has been living in a one-room appartment since she left home.
• How long have you been playing the piano?
• He's been learning German for two years, but he still can't speak it very well.
• We've been painting our house since last Friday, but we're still a long way from finishing.
• We haven't been living in Germany very long.
• Why are you sweating? Have you been running?

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Past perfect continuous

• I had been working in the garden all day, and all I wanted to do was sleep.
• She had been living in a one-room appartment for a year before getting married.
• How long had you been playing the piano before the accident with your hand?
• He'd been learning German for two years, but he stopped when he returned to Japan.
• We'd been painting our house for two weeks, but we were still a long way from finishing.

Future continuous

• At this time next week I will be sitting in the plane on the way to New York.
• Don't call me after 10 o'clock. I'll be sleeping.
• If you want to see Miho tomorrow, you will have to go to the school. She will be taking a test all afternoon.
• I won't be working on my car this weekend. My mother-in-law will be here.

Future perfect

• I hope my mother will have finished cooking dinner by the time I get home.
• You can come at 6 o'clock. I will have done my homework by then.
• There's no point calling her at home. She will have left for work already.
• On June 25 2020 they will have been married for 60 years.

Future perfect continuous

• By the time I retire I will have been working here for 45 years!
• If she reaches her 60th birthday, she will have been smoking for half a century!

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