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<!-- (audio) James: Linda, looking back, how long have we been collaborating on these updates? -->

--instructions--

Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

--fillInTheBlank--

--sentence--

Linda, looking back, how long have we been BLANK on these updates?

--blanks--

collaborating

--feedback--

A word that means working together on something. It ends in -ing.

--explanation--

Have been collaborating is a form of the present perfect continuous tense. It describes an action that started in the past and is still ongoing. For example:

We have been collaborating on this project for two years. - This means that the collaboration started two years ago and is still happening.

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