chagdash
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Hi,
I have a question about the following sentence:
She feels very energetic because she has been sleeping all day long.
In grammar books, the following usage is provided for Present Perfect Continuous:
- for past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present
In a sentence like 'He feels very tired because he has been working all day long', I do not sense any awkwardness or illogical sequencing of events/situations and I can easily associate the above usage with the example.
However, the first sentence leads me to think that 'sleeping' might not be fit for Present Perfect usage as I feel that tense structure is leaving a gap or causing a missing link (such as 'waking up' and even 'getting up') between the two actions, namely 'sleeping' and 'feeling'.
Could you please reflect on this?
Thank you very much in advance.
Cagdas
I have a question about the following sentence:
She feels very energetic because she has been sleeping all day long.
In grammar books, the following usage is provided for Present Perfect Continuous:
- for past actions of certain duration having visible results or effects in the present
In a sentence like 'He feels very tired because he has been working all day long', I do not sense any awkwardness or illogical sequencing of events/situations and I can easily associate the above usage with the example.
However, the first sentence leads me to think that 'sleeping' might not be fit for Present Perfect usage as I feel that tense structure is leaving a gap or causing a missing link (such as 'waking up' and even 'getting up') between the two actions, namely 'sleeping' and 'feeling'.
Could you please reflect on this?
Thank you very much in advance.
Cagdas