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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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has been/ have been

would like to know how to convey a message to a person about that person's documents, posted by me to another office, is already reached the destination or delivered - If parcel was sent on 25th and was delivered on on 28th and me conveying the message on 29th. Can I say 1. Your parcel has been reached or 2. Your parcel has reached ? or. 3. Your parcel has just been reached. Please help me with the right usage. Thanks.
  

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You want a tense to indicate that the whatever action has been taken with regard to the package, that action is complete. You may use the perfect tense (with "has") or the past tense with a date. "

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  • You want a tense to indicate that the whatever action has been taken with regard to the package, that action is complete.
  • You may use the perfect tense (with "has") or the past tense with a date.
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You want a tense to indicate that the whatever action has been taken with regard to the package, that action is complete. You may use the perfect tense (with "has") or the past tense with a date. You want the passive voice (with "been") to indicate that the package has been acted upon or the active voice to indicate that the package is doing the action:

Perfect active: "Your package ha
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