perfect continuous

noun

1. perfect progressive.

Word History and Origins

Origin of perfect continuous¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

From Springfield the passage was a perfect continuous ovation.

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But that is a digression from my more immediate purpose, which is simply to bring before our minds, as clearly as I can, that perfect, continuous, ever-repeated willingness, expressing itself in a chain of constant acts that touch one upon the other, which Christ manifested to embrace the Cross, and to accomplish what was at once the purpose of the Father's will and the purpose of His own.

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Present Perfect Continuous….He has been teaching.

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Past Perfect Continuous…….He had been teaching.

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Future Perfect Continuous…..He will have been teaching.

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