present perfect continuous + adverb – English Grammar Profiler

If you are looking for present perfect continuous adverbs, then you are probably looking for adverbs in the middle position = inside the longer present perfect progressive verb phrase between the auxiliary verbs HAVE & BEEN.  Maybe you’d like to know which are the most common present participles at the end.  Firstly, let’s look for:

have | has | ‘ve | ‘s + ADVERB + BEEN + VERB ing

in the iWeb corpus with the query:

have|has _r been _vvg

1 HAS ALSO BEEN WORKING 948
2 HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING 754

4 HAVE ALSO BEEN USING 512 5 HAVE ALSO BEEN LOOKING 351 6 HAVE ALREADY BEEN USING 319

7 HAVE ALREADY BEEN WORKING 318

I‘ve already been working on my accent.

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8 HAVE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING 298 9 HAS ALREADY BEEN WORKING 241 10 HAS ALSO BEEN MAKING 214 11 HAVE ALSO BEEN TRYING 212 12 HAVE JUST BEEN READING 212 13 HAVE ALSO BEEN TAKING 201 14 HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING 200 15 HAVE NOW BEEN USING 187 16 HAS NOW BEEN RUNNING 184 17 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 177 18 HAVE ALSO BEEN GETTING 177 19 HAVE JUST BEEN LOOKING 176

20 HAVE JUST BEEN USING 168

21 HAVE ALL BEEN WORKING 166

22 HAVE ALSO BEEN MAKING 152 23 HAS ALSO BEEN USING 148 24 HAS SINCE BEEN WORKING 146 25 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN LOOKING 139 26 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN USING 137 27 HAS JUST BEEN SITTING 130 28 HAVE ALSO BEEN THINKING 128 29 HAS RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 126 30 HAS ALSO BEEN TAKING 125 31 HAS ALSO BEEN GETTING 120 32 HAS ALSO BEEN TRYING 118 33 HAVE RECENTLY BEEN TRYING 118 34 HAVE NOW BEEN WORKING 117 35 HAVE ALSO BEEN PLAYING 117

36 HAS RECENTLY BEEN MAKING 107

HAVE ALSO BEEN EXPERIENCING

  Derry Now However, it has now emerged that some residents in Derry have also been experiencing issues with student parties.

38 HAVE LONG BEEN WAITING 100 39 HAVE ALSO BEEN READING 99

40 HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN USING 99

HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHALLENGING

  Forbes The business world has always been challenging and competitive. *Challenging appears as an adjective here.

B1 vocabulary:

experiencing, recently

've _rr been _vvg

1 ‘VE ALL BEEN WAITING 1181

2 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WORKING 405 3 ‘VE ALSO BEEN USING 297 4 ‘VE JUST BEEN READING 213 5 ‘VE JUST BEEN TRYING 213 6 ‘VE JUST BEEN USING 206 7 ‘VE ALSO BEEN LOOKING 203 8 ‘VE ALSO BEEN THINKING 193 9 ‘VE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING 188 10 ‘VE JUST BEEN LOOKING 186 11 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TRYING 174 12 ‘VE JUST BEEN WORKING 140 13 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN USING 134 14 ‘VE JUST BEEN PLAYING 133 15 ‘VE ALL BEEN WORKING 129 16 ‘VE JUST BEEN TALKING 128 17 ‘VE ALSO BEEN PLAYING 124 18 ‘VE ALSO BEEN GETTING 123 19 ‘VE ALSO BEEN READING 112 20 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN WORKING 102 21 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING 101 22 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN USING 98 23 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN WORKING 95 24 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN THINKING 93 25 ‘VE JUST BEEN WATCHING 91 26 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TAKING 90 27 ‘VE JUST BEEN WAITING 90 28 ‘VE JUST BEEN GOING 89 29 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING 88 30 ‘VE REALLY BEEN TRYING 88 31 ‘VE JUST BEEN GETTING 80 32 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN LOOKING 74 33 ‘VE ALSO BEEN TALKING 73 34 ‘VE JUST BEEN THINKING 72 35 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN GETTING 71 36 ‘VE ALL BEEN LOOKING 68 37 ‘VE ALL BEEN TALKING 68 38 ‘VE ALSO BEEN MAKING 68 39 ‘VE REALLY BEEN LOOKING 66 40 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN USING 66 41 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN TRYING 64 42 ‘VE JUST BEEN TAKING 63 43 ‘VE REALLY BEEN WORKING 57 44 ‘VE JUST BEEN SITTING 56 45 ‘VE REALLY BEEN WANTING 55 46 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN TRYING 54 47 ‘VE ALSO BEEN EXPERIMENTING 54 48 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN TRYING 54 49 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN READING 54 50 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN LOOKING 53 51 ‘VE ALSO BEEN ENJOYING 52 52 ‘VE ALL BEEN ASKING 51

53 ‘VE MOSTLY BEEN USING 51

54 ‘VE ALSO BEEN SEEING 49 55 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WATCHING 49 56 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN THINKING 49 57 ‘VE JUST BEEN LISTENING 48 58 ‘VE ALL BEEN HEARING 46 59 ‘VE JUST BEEN RUNNING 46

60 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN PLAYING 46

‘VE ALSO BEEN TESTING

  The Verge I’ve also been testing 4K performance, which you can find below.

62 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN PLAYING 44 63 ‘VE ALL BEEN USING 44 64 ‘VE ALSO BEEN RUNNING 44

65 ‘VE ALL BEEN COUNTING 42

66 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN USING 41 67 ‘VE ALL BEEN PLAYING 40 68 ‘VE JUST BEEN PUTTING 40 69 ‘VE REALLY BEEN THINKING 40 70 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN PLAYING 39 71 ‘VE PROBABLY BEEN HEARING 38 72 ‘VE ALSO BEEN GOING 37

73 ‘VE ALL BEEN WONDERING 36

74 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING 36

75 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WONDERING 36

76 ‘VE JUST BEEN FEELING 36 77 ‘VE JUST BEEN MAKING 36 78 ‘VE ALL BEEN ENJOYING 35 79 ‘VE ALSO BEEN LISTENING 35 80 ‘VE ACTUALLY BEEN MEANING 34 81 ‘VE ALWAYS BEEN WORKING 34 82 ‘VE ALL BEEN WATCHING 33 83 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WRITING 33 84 ‘VE PROBABLY BEEN USING 32 85 ‘VE ALREADY BEEN THINKING 31 86 ‘VE RECENTLY BEEN EXPERIMENTING 31

87 ‘VE ALL BEEN LIVING 30

‘VE ALSO BEEN CONSIDERING

89 ‘VE ALSO BEEN WANTING 30
90 ‘VE JUST BEEN WONDERING 30
91 ‘VE MAINLY BEEN WORKING 30

B1 vocabulary:

considering, counting, mainly, mostly, testing, wondering

Here’s an extremely advanced sentence with our grammar that shows adverbs in different positions:

In fact, it also shows something interesting,

 that although our capabilities and technology have been expanding geometrically,

 unfortunately, our ability to model their long-term behavior, 

which has also been increasing, 

has been increasing only arithmetically.

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