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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

grammer question

I want to know the actual meaning of been and where it can use this word. Now i have some question. 1) if some one ask me where is your brother, then if i say, he has been sleeping means he is still sleeping or something else. 2) the road is closed. there has been an accident means the accident happen in past and i am telling now or that accident happen jut few minute back. 3) if i say, i have lived in USA for 20 years means i still leaving there or i moved to another place and if i say, i have lived in USA then what's it means.
maybe in my question so many grammatical mistake please don't mind for that
  

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Anonymous I want to know the actual meaning of been Gramm a r Also, " i " is not correct. " It is a used in perfect tenses. Other than being a marker of tense, it has no meaning of its own.

— AlpheccaStars

  • Anonymous I want to know the actual meaning of been Gramm a r Also, " i " is not correct.
  • " It is a used in perfect tenses.
  • Other than being a marker of tense, it has no meaning of its own.
  • He is here now.
  • (present) He was here yesterday.
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AnonymousI want to know the actual meaning of been
Grammar
Also, " i " is not correct. Always use " I ."

"Been" is the past participle of the verb "be." It is a used in perfect tenses. Other than being a marker o
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AlpheccaStars"Been" is the past participle of the verb "be." It is a used in perfect tenses. Other than being a marker of tense, it has no meaning of its own.
So, if been has "no meaning of its own" as in He has been here before, than the whole sentence is deprived of a lexical verb as has is a helping verb (operator of the perfect
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AnonymousIs that what you mean?
Not exactly. When there is another lexical verb, "have / has / had been" are "helping verbs" to indicate tense.
It can, of course, stand alone as the lexical verb, "be".
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AlpheccaStarsIt can, of course, stand alone as the lexical verb, "be".
... though one must admit that its meaning is still rather vacuous even in that role.

Some languages don't even use a linking verb. "He here" is a complete sentence in such languages. So the "has been" is more like a marker of aspect than anything else. Hence, I'd call the main
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