By Writing letters, Tenses

1.Is there any difference between "present perfect tense" and "present perfect progressive tense"? E.g. "I have lived here for 6 years." Vs. "I have been living here for 6 years." I think they are almost the same? 2. I think the difference between "all morning" and "this morning" is: "all...

What's the difference between "this morning" and "all morning" when they are used in the present perfect sentence? which one represents a duration--from the past to now? I have written letters . I have been writing letters. what do they mean? i know the meaning of the second one -- i wrote...

Anonymous wrote: I dare to ask Mr. Paco how the sentence "I have been writing letters all morning." can insinuate the notion that s/he is continuing to write a letter even if it is assumed to be morning. I dare to ask Mr. Paco for further edification. Hello AnonIf we are not given any other...

With regard to I have been writing ..., you end your post with the question so you mean i I have done six letters The answer is "No". When I explain have been writing in terms of were working on, I don't mean have done; I mean have been doing. Maybe a point of confusion lies with the...

The usages of the present perfect tense are: 1.Actions which started in the past and are still continuing 2.Actions which happened at some unknown time/unspecific time/unfinished time in the past,which meansit's important to say that something happened (or didn't happen).3.Actions which happened...

Thanks for your replying, but I have some questions about them: I have been writing letters all morning. This says what activity you were involved with all morning, that is, during the entire morning. It is still morning and you may still be writing letters or you may have decided to stop...

CalifJim has written an excellent summary here. May I just add a couple of observations of my own. CalifJim wrote:You may be driving yourself crazy trying to make every sentence with a present perfect tense fit into one those three categories! I have written six letters this morning.This...

Hello MIA6Are you a native speaker? If so it's very interesting to me. I'm a Japanese, who have learned English rather for a long time but still find it tough to catch the exact sense and usage of English present perfect tense. I'm afraid you might feel ill to hear about the grammar of your...

You may be driving yourself crazy trying to make every sentence with a present perfect tense fit into one those three categories! I have written six letters this morning. This means that during the morning you finished the task of writing six letters. You are not still writing the...

I have some problems,they are the phrases about time: yet, today, so far, to date, up to now, recently, lately, up to these few days, this morning, now, up to present. what do they mean? Are some of them duration? Do some of them represent sometime/some time in the past? yet: 1.up to the...