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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Changing Present Perfect Simple to Past Simple

I've had two accidents this week

I've never been outside Europe.


I am struggling with these two sentences. How does one change them from the present perfect simple to the past simple? In particular I am wondering what happens to the word "Been" when it changes from PPS to Past Simple - namely how does it's form change as I assumed been is already a past participle?


Really appreciate any help.


Thank you.

  

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I had two accidents this week. I was never / I never was outside Europe.

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  • I was never / I never was outside Europe.
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I had two accidents this week.

I was never / I never was outside Europe.

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anonymousI've never been outside Europe.

A complication of your question is that "been" can be used idiomatically rather like an alternative past participle of "go", e.g. in sentences such as "I've been to London". We cannot say "I was to London", though we can say "I went to London". In your sentence, it seems ambiguous to me whether "been" is used in such

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Thanks for the replies!


Just to confirm, the verb "been" changes to "was" in the past simple? I am still slightly confused as I have read that past simple requires the Past Participle form for the verb, but I have read that "been" is the past participle form of "be"? So when changing the sentences to past simple should "been" not still be "been".


Again, thank you both so

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