English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
This question already has an answer here:
suppose after a long time my friend has come to my house. Can I welcome him saying 'Hey bro, what's up? I have been waiting for your visit for a long time. Nice to see you again.'? Should I use 'have been waiting' or 'was waiting' in the sentence?
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
I have been waiting for your visit for a long time is correct in this case since the present perfect continuous tense is used when the focus is on an activity that is unfinished till to the present ( the moment when you see your friend). But the past continuous tense is used to talk about something which continued before and after another action in the past. For example: The children were doing their homework when I got home.
