[Grammar] please help me with this text

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deaztec

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John has been taking a lot of photograph of the Borobudur when he went there on her vacation.
is it text right with the underline word or wrong?
please help me teacher:-D
 
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deaztec said:
John has been taking a lot of photograph of the Borobudur when he went there on her vacation.
is it text right with the underline word or wrong?
please help me teacher:-D
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No. 'Has been taking' means that he may still be doing it now, or in the future.

"John had been taking a lot of photographs..." would be correct.
"John took a lot a photographs..." would also be correct.
 
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John took a lot a photographs...

I would prefer the past tense here.
The past perfect continuous is used to "express a longer action in the past before another action in the past.

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