What is the difference between I have been waiting and I am waiting?

“I am waiting” is present continuous tense. Your action just now started and is still continuing and that will have a definite end so shortly. “I have been waiting” is present perfect continuous tense. Here, your action started in the past at a specific point of time and it is still in progress.

What is the difference between I am and I have been?

“I had been” is used for an action started in the past, carried out for a period of time, then stopped. But “I had been an employee” says you are not longer working there. “I am been” is wrong. “I am being” is usually used for an action happening at this moment.

When to use will have been?

Will have use past participle of the verb and will have been using present participle of the verb. Will have tells us about the action which is completed in the future but ‘will have been’ tells us about action which is unfinished but will be finished. ‘Will Have Been’ is the Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Will have been Vs will be?

For your example you probably want to use will be. This refers to to a point in time which is in the future relative to now – in this case the year 2030. Will have been refers to a time, which is in the past relative to a time in the future.

Has been waited grammar?

has been + participle, verb-ing, or whatever you call the form ‘waiting’, is an active form. It tells what the subject was doing. has been + past participle, verb-ed, or whatever you call the form ‘waited’, is a passive form. It tells what happened to the subject, or what was done to the subject.

What does ‘I will have been waiting’ mean in English?

‘I will have been waiting’ is in the future continuous tense. It means that the action will be happening at some moment in the future. ‘I will have waited’ is in the future perfect tense. It means that the action will have been completed by some moment in the future.

Is it correct to say ‘I have been waiting here for hours’?

If you are talking about ” How Long ” or the “Duration” of the time, or how long you have waited. It is better to use Present Perfect Progressive (with ING in the end). So I would say ” I have been waiting here for hours” is better than “I have waited here for hours”. In other hand you better use Perfect Present Tense if the verb is non action 🙂

What does it mean to wait on someone?

To wait on somebody: to serve someone, especially at a restaurant, serving food and drinks at their table. Waiter: “Those customers were delightfully polite! It was a pleasure waiting on them.” Sarah had a long day at the store, waiting on customers for 10 hours straight!

What is the difference between ‘waiting’ and ‘awaiting’?

Await is another verb that means to delay in expectation of something happening. Awaiting is its present participle. While await and wait are similar in terms of meaning, they differ in usage. Wait can be used without an object, like in the sentence I am waiting. Await, meanwhile, requires an object. The sentence I am awaiting is improperly