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Li Ming Lok Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Has been dumped/ has dumped

A lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish have been dumped on the shore.

Why need to add been?
  

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Hello Because the sentence is in passive form. Active: The people have dumped a lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish on the shore. Passive: A lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish have been dumped on the shore (by the people) Let's make it simple.

— Mudclay

  • Hello Because the sentence is in passive form.
  • Active: The people have dumped a lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish on the shore.
  • Passive: A lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish have been dumped on the shore (by the people) Let's make it simple.
  • e.
  • The people dump a lot of plastic bags on the shore.
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Hello

Because the sentence is in passive form.

Active: The people have dumped a lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish on the shore.

Passive: A lot of plastic bags and other unsightly rubbish have been dumped on the shore (by the people)

Let's make it simple. i.e. The people dump a lot of plastic bags on the shore. Passive: A lot of plastic bag
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In this case, "to dump" is a transitive verb. It needs an actor and an object.

Somebody dumped the bags.

In passive voice, The bags were dumped by somebody.

The bags cannot dump themselves.

Those examples are in simple past tense. Yours are in present perfect.

Somebody has dumped the bags.

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Can i change have into were?
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Li Ming LokCan i change have into were?
Not exactly. The bags have been dumped by somebody.

You have several choices:

You can switch to active voice -

Somebody is dumping bags

People are dumping bags

Somebody was dumpi
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Main verb Simple tenses

dump The boys dump the plastic bags.

dumped The boys dumped the plastic bags.

HAVE + main verb Perfect tenses

have dumped The boys have dumped the plastic bags. <1

had dumped The boys had dumped the pl
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Hi,
It's clear.

1-subeject+ dump(transative verb) + object.

e.g: The men+ have dumped+ the plastic bags (Active). so ,when the sentence starts with the "object"(in place of the subject), it changes into passive voice.

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