Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 10

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• 00:10

  Hi there and welcome back.

• 00:11

  This is Harry, and we are in our podcast again, giving you some help in relation to english language for those of you at or around the intermediate level.

• 00:23

  As always, I'm going to read the sentence for you twice and then explain the main grammatical points in that particular sentence.

• 00:30

  So the sentence for you today is, we have lived in this house since I was a small child.

• 00:38

  Okay.

• 00:39

  The second reading, we have lived in.

• 00:41

  This house since I was a small child.

• 00:45

  The important grammatical structure here is at the beginning of the sentence, we have lived.

• 00:51

  And here we're using the present perfect.

• 00:54

  We have lived.

• 00:57

  Lived is the past participle of the verb to live.

• 01:01

  And we have lived is the way we form present perfect.

• 01:05

  We could also, in fact, here use present perfect continuous because it will mean exactly the same.

• 01:11

  So we could say, we have been living in this house since I was a small child.

• 01:19

  We have been living in this house since I was a small child.

• 01:24

  Because we have been living suggests continuity.

• 01:27

  Okay, so we're using the ing living, okay, or we have lived is present perfect, something that started in the past when you were a small child and brings you right up to the future.

• 01:40

  Okay, so both of these are grammatically correct.

• 01:43

  We have lived, or we have been living.

• 01:46

  Okay, we have been living, or we have lived in this house.

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