atw: Re: Particular past tense

On 26 Apr 2007, at 3:09 PM, pfagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"The driver has lost control of his truck and he's ended up in a creek. He's got out of the cab and tried to swim for it but he's caught his leg in a snag. He's yelled out and fortunately some local kids have heard him. 
They've run for help..."
Well, I'm not anybody's esteemed whatever, but this looks rather like the present perfect continuous tense, which is used to describe actions that started in the past and continue in the present, or actions that began in the past and have recently stopped. 

JH

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