”She has been waiting for a knight to rescue her” Certainly：- かなりおそらく、彼女はまっています。待つことはおわ ってないですから完了時制でありえない。
Wikipedia:
The present perfect tense is a perfect tense used to express action that has been completed with respect to the present.
Whoa: there's been a change since I last checked、"have + past participle" is now listed as past perfect, at least on some sites.
About.com
We use has or have with a past participle to describe an action that started in the past and is (or may be) still going on. This construction is called the past-perfect tense.
(past perfect is at least an improvement on present perfect -but perfect still means
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Originally Posted by Oxford Dictionary
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed
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For those who wish to compare,
this page, post#28 is the first in a particular series of posts - there are maybe 3 or 4 made by me regarding the subject in the thread - that I made about the matter just before I checked the ESL sites. Note also the response at post#32.
Given that I stand to be accused of both arrogance and of hypocrisy in making this kind of comment about teaching materials, I do not make such posts lightly.
EDIT: (sigh) that past perfect bit seems to be a typo... I've asked for clarification.