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Correct the following sentences.

1. My uncle has been in the United States for 2020.
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2. My best friends are staying with us since Tuesday.
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3. They had being doing this activity since morning.
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4. The pilot had been flying high in the sky for 2 o’clock.
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5. My sister will have been doing her homework since two hours.
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6. We shall have been going to Agra since four months.
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Let’s Learn Present Perfect Continuous Tense

The present perfect continuous tense is used to show:
something that has been going on from a particular time in the past till the present moment.
For example:
We have been coming here for the last five months.
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something that has just completed. For example:
He has been watching too many videos.
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Formation of Sentences in Present Perfect Continuous Tense

To make a positive sentence, we add has/have been before the present participle (-ing)
form of the main verb. For example:
The fire has been raging since last night.
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To make a negative sentence, we add has not/have not + been before the present participle
(-ing) form of the main verb. For example:
Lately, I have not been feeling well.
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