Thursday, January 31, 2019

present perfect - “I have been *verb*ing...”: once or many times?


There is someone who drives me crazy using the past perfect to indicate an action that was performed only once, and I understand that it indicates an action performed more than once. For example:



I have been calling you.


I have been trying to reach you.




I understand it means the person has called several times, or tried to reach the other person several times. Could you please tell me the exact meaning of "I have been..." or indicate when we should use it?




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