Lia  +  384963 Wed, 27 Jun 07 03:26 PM Please help me with this sentence (Those boys like to play football in the evening) change it into Present perfect continuous tense. Is there anyone who can help me. Thanks! Lia Joined on Wed, Jun 27 2007 New Member 01 Tenses, Present Perfect, Football

	Philip  +  384998 Wed, 27 Jun 07 04:02 PM  Lia wrote: Please help me with this sentence (Those boys like to play football in the evening) change it into Present perfect continuous tense. Is there anyone who can help me. Thanks! [Have been liking to play] is what you've asked for.  It is awkard to my ear, however. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,737 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen Tenses, Present Perfect, Football

	Cool Breeze  +  385042 Wed, 27 Jun 07 05:39 PM  Philip wrote: [Have been liking to play] is what you've asked for.  It is awkard to my ear, however. I agree with Philip. There are quite a few verbs that aren't used in continuous tenses, or haven't been used, anyway. There's a tendency to use some such verbs in continuous tenses just to attract attention in advertising, for example. I prefer to avoid them. To my mind like in a continuous tense is wrong. English changes, though. Maybe some day after enough people have used it often enough it'll be considered correct. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,974 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991 Verbs, Tenses, Present Perfect

	Yankee  +  385115 Wed, 27 Jun 07 11:16 PM I agree with Philip and CB..  Lia, are you sure you're not supposed to simply use the verb 'play' in the present perfect continuous?  That would be a normal usage: Those boys have been playing football in the evening. Or does your teacher want you to possibly write something like this? Those boys have liked playing football in the evening. The sentence above is not actually the present perfect continuous, but rather the present perfect simple of the verb 'like' followed by the -ing form of the verb 'play'. Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,499 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain Verbs, Present Perfect, Football