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Jmvinay Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Difference

Can someone suggest me how to use "Have been" and "to have been"? I want to know the difference
  

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Hello and welcome to English Forums [<:o)] Do you have a context that you want to use them in? I will give you some phrases and hope that they help. Present perfect continuous: I have been waiting for you for 3 hours, where have you been?

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  • Hello and welcome to English Forums [<:o)] Do you have a context that you want to use them in?
  • I will give you some phrases and hope that they help.
  • Present perfect continuous: I have been waiting for you for 3 hours, where have you been?
  • Future perfect continuous.
  • You are going to have been waiting for me for 3 hours when the train finally arrives.
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Hello and welcome to English Forums [<:o)]

Do you have a context that you want to use them in?

I will give you some phrases and hope that they help.

Present perfect continuous:
I have been waiting for you for 3 hours, where have you been?

Future perfect continuous.
You are going to have been waiting for me for 3 hours when the train finally arrives.
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"have/has been" is the present perfect of the verb to be. "to have been" is called the perfect infinitive.

Examples

Have you ever been to France? (present perfect)

I've (I have) never been to France. (present perfect)

She claims to have been raped by her boss. (perfect infinitive)

Of course, there are many more situations where usi
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